Reflecting the changing seasons and linking to events on key dates – funny for April Fool's Day, festive for Christmas – these poems are thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating, and empowering! The day-to-day format of the anthology invites readers to make poetry a part of their daily routine, and makes sure that they discover something inspirational, life affirming, provocative, moving or entertaining each and every day. Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti and Emily Bronte sit alongside Roger McGough, Wendy Cope, Imtiaz Dharker, Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath and Ocean Vuong. Some offer insightful biographical details or key historical context, while others may provide quirky, humorous anecdotes. Reflecting the changing seasons and linking to events on key dates - funny for April Fool's Day, festive for Christmas - these poems are thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating, and empowering! This soul-enhancing book is the perfect gift that will last the whole year, with a little bit of magic to read every day. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new discoveries. S. T.
a poem for every day of the year
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Laura L.
Thank you Macmillan for creating such a gorgeous publication! I was disappointed that the beautiful illustrations are only on the dust jacket and only back and white ones for each month.
Amazon Customer
. ) but it's far too tempting for that. As one would expect, it features one poem for every day of the year; this much I'd expected, but when the book arrived I was delighted to find that each date features a short paragraph either about the poem or about any special occasions or events that can be marked on that day.
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