Songs of Ourselves Volume 3 - Digital Version (2 Years)

Songs of Ourselves Volume 3 with Digital Version (2 Years)

Songs of Ourselves Volume 3 with Digital Version (2 Years)

1st Edition
Mary Wilmer
April 2025
Print + Digital
9781009467667

Discover fully updated volumes of global poetry and short stories for use as set texts.

Overview

Volume 3 of Songs of Ourselves extends our global range of poetry with even more contemporary and diverse. Literature students will explore a variety of language, form and style, covering engaging themes that will inspire them to reflect on the world around them and know it, and themselves, more richly. The updated volume presents poems from over 50 countries, introducing modern work by writers such as Hone Tuwhare, Dambudzo Marechera, Iman Mersal, Sina Queyras and George the Poet plus canonical greats including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Rainer Maria Rilke. Access your digital resource via Cambridge GO.

Features

  • We have introduced more modern texts and more diversity in our chosen authors, showcasing a global range of poetry that reaches across time and cultures.
  • New songs from authors representing over 50 countries, including New Zealand/Maori, Zimbabwe, India and Egypt.
  • Introducing modern work by writers such as Hone Tuwhare, Dambudzo Marechera, Iman Mersal, Sina Queyras and George the Poet plus canonical greats including William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Rainer Maria Rilke.
  • In response to feedback from teachers, we have grouped our Songs by theme to make the volume easier to navigate.
  • Explores elements of the human experience to inspire students and readers to reflect on the world around them and know it, and themselves, more richly through the power of poetry.
  • Parts of Songs of Ourselves are set for study in Cambridge IGCSEâ„¢, IGCSE (9-1) and O Level Literature in English (0475/0992/2010), Cambridge IGCSE World Literature (0408) and Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in English (9695) and Cambridge International AS Level Language and Literature in English (8695) syllabuses.
  • Available in print and digital to allow for more flexible use inside and outside the classroom.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Natural encounters
  • Part 2: People and places
  • Part 3: Play
  • Part 4: Relationships
  • Part 5: Self
  • Acknowledgements.

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