Finalist, 2022 Blue Light Book Award Pat Underwood grew up on an Iowa farm, married her high school sweetheart, and together they raised two sons on a country hillside northwest of Colfax, Iowa where the plentiful wildlife inspired many of her poems. After receiving her college degree at the age of 44, she worked in early education and retired in 2017 from her employment with the State of Iowa. Former publications include two poetry chapbooks - Portraits (Finishing Line Press 2017) and Gatherings (Celestial Light Press 2007). Her play kit The Last Supper (Meriwether Publishing Ltd.; Contemporary Drama Service 1997) travels the nation. Underwood's poems received a 2001 Pushcart Prize Nomination, a 1996 Founder's Award, and a 2002 Founder's Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. "These poems of quiet contemplation and gentle celebration of life carve their images out of an understated language elegant in its directness and radiant in its clarity. Whether remembering her childhood, commemorating beloved family members, reliving the loss of a husband, or observing the landscape of her rural home, Pat Underwood welcomes us into kinship with where she lives. Her precise attention to the natural world and her calmly passionate response to her surroundings help to illuminate the caterpillars, wood ducks, cattle, cottonwoods, and characters she reveals to us. Of earthworms, Underwood writes, they resurrect the holy ground. The same might be said of these poems. Each one revives in us the very act of seeing."- Jeanne Emmons, author of The Red Canoe"Reading Pat Underwood's Where I Live is like sitting with the poet on a porch swing at her home in the country and letting the beauty of her warmth and tenderness cascade over you in a healing wash. These poems are honest, perceptive, deeply felt, and superbly articulated with crisp imagery that resonates long after you've read them. They deal with the sadness and joy of family, love and nature, even tragedy with the calmest and clearest of hearts. She speaks as if she knows you, as if you and she are friends, as well you will be after venturing deep in the heart of where she lives. It is well worth the visit."- Michael Carey, author of The Holy Ground"Pat Underwood's voice is one singing out from the fields of Iowa. Embrace her words and listen to the melodies of rural America."- Loretta Diane Walker, author of Day Begins When Darkness Is in Full Bloom"Anyone who's read Pat Underwood's poems knows her clear and lyrical images of rural Iowa life: Snake grass, wild and outstretched/slithers along the creek bank (Country Road). But the poems in her new book live in the wider world, too, of family and travel, of love and grief, of doubt and acceptance. Not even mosquitoes, she says in The Dinner Party, can spoil/my sense of being a woman - /this place of our beautiful selves. Where I Live is Pat Underwood at the top of her game - a beautiful, lyric book."- Keith Ratzlaff, author of Who's Asking?

Where I Live

Self-Help

Underwood, Pat

Relationships

Blue Light Press

Portraits

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Finishing Line Press

Landscapes of Madeira (Landscape Countryside Guides)

Travel

Underwood, John

Europe

A C Black Publishers Ltd

Sunflower guides have been available in Europe for years and they have a dedicated following. Now Hunter is bringing them to the States. In handy pocket-size format. Sunflower guides offer a unique combination of walks and driving tours for the vacationer. Each guide includes: - dozens of unforgettable walks for all ages and abilities, with highly detailed walking maps in full color- the most rewarding driving tours of the region- large color fold-out maps- color photos that show what you will see on every walk and tour- timetables for buses, trains, ferries- information on the local foods, customs, wildlife, historic sites- a free update service on the Web, www.sunflowerbooks.co.uk, will keep you abreast of all changes since publication

Western Provence: And Languedoc-roussillon (Landscapes Countryside Guides S.)

Sunflower Guides

Hunter Pub Inc

The 45 titles in this series are especially strong on destinations in southern Europe, offering pocket-sized full-colour motoring and walking guides with fold-out touring maps and large-scale topographical walking maps.

Sunflower Landscapes Madeira (Sunflower Guide Madeira)

Sunflower Landscapes Madeira: Car Tours and Walks (Sunflower Guide Madeira)

Reference

Sunflower

Atlases & Maps

This pocket-sized full-colour guide is designed for short-break holidays around Nice with a gastronomic touch. Even if you're not a walker, it's worth having just for the restaurant suggestions, the excursions and the information about local food. The book describes two excursions for all-comers (including the superb narrow-gauge Train de Pignes into the hinterland), plus 12 easy to moderate walks in or easily accessible from Nice, all illustrated with 1:35,000 topographical maps. Each excursion or walk recommends at least one restaurant en route serving local cuisine, with photograph, price guide, opening times, sample menus, and recipes for some of their specialities. Other sections include: planning your trip, getting about, food shopping (including health foods and local markets), glossary of food terms and restaurant mini-vocabulary. A special feature is the emphasis on natural local foods suitable for those with food intolerances. All recipes have been made by the authors and are known to 'work'. On-line updates keep readers abreast of route/restaurant changes.

Walk & Eat Around Nice

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

Sunflower Books Uk

Pocket-sized guide for visitors to Provence who want to walk round the major cities and sights, eat out or self-cater.

Walk & Eat Around Avignon

THE guide to Madeira for more than 30 years and a winner of the Thomas Cook Best Travel Guide Award, this book is by far the most heavily reviewed guide on Amazon, with 86 reviews for the previous edition. It guides the visitor across the island by car and on foot. But it is primarily known as a walking guide. The 'Sunday Times' said, 'A remarkable paperback which may have done more than any other to change the way its readers spend their holidays: this book single-handedly turned levada-walking into something approaching a craze.' Levadas are watercourses that carry rainfall from the mountains to irrigate the cultivated terraces, and they have totally captured the imagination of visitors to the island - whether walkers or not. Many people use the book just to picnic or stroll in the idyllic surroundings beside a levada. Still, the island is one of Europe's top destinations for mountain walks. With this in mind, we've concentrated in this updated 12th edition on re-walking all the high-level routes - especially important in view of last year's path collapse on the major traverse from Pico do Arieiro to Pico Ruivo. In addition to the 'classics', about half of the 100 different routes in the guide have been rewalked. Naturally all the car tours have been checked as well - and the new edition warns you about major road closures. As usual, there are fairly significant changes to all the maps - including the addition of two new breathtaking mountain roads for keen motorists. And all of this revision was carried out only two months prior to publication of this new edition, so it is really up-to-date.

Sunflower Landscapes of Madeira: A Countryside Guide

This pocket-sized full-colour guide to walking in Madeira is designed for visitors who would like to combine some enticing walks with the best local cooking. Many of the walks are along the 'levada' paths so beloved of visitors. Levadas are watercourses that carry rainfall from the mountains to irrigate the cultivated terraces. But even 'non-walkers' will appreciate the recommendations for eating out in Madeira. For each suggested restaurant there is a photograph of the decor and one of their dishes, plus sample menu, price guide, opening times and a recipe for one of their specialities. Other sections include: planning your trip, logistics on arrival, local markets and specialities, glossary of local food terms, and a restaurant mini-vocabulary. A special feature is the emphasis on natural local foods suitable for those with food intolerances. All recipes have been made by the authors and are known to 'work'. The 13 walks are dotted all around the island, and are of the easy-to-moderate grade. But note: There is some overlapping of walk routes between this book and 'Landscapes of Madeira' by the same authors. Do check the contents of both guides to compare coverage and see which book might best suit you.

Madeira (Walk & Eat)

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