A Poet for Every Day of the Year

An inspirational, life affirming, provocative, moving or entertaining poem for each and every day of the year.

About the author

Allie Esiri read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge and is an award-winning curator, described by The Sunday Times as a ‘poetry powerhouse’. Her anthology A Poem for Every Day of the Year was in the best books of the year list in The Times and the Observer. Her previous anthology, A Poem for Every Night of the Year was a best book of the year in The Times and the New Statesman and won the IBW book award. She hosts an annual poetry show at the National Theatre and regular events at major festivals including Hay, Cheltenham and Edinburgh.

Summary

An inspirational, life affirming, provocative, moving or entertaining poem for each and every day of the year.

Foreword

An inspirational, life affirming, provocative, moving or entertaining poem for each and every day of the year.

Additional text

A Poem for Every Day does exactly what this sort of book should do and rallies the old crowd-pleasers (Housman, Kipling and Hardy make multiple appearances), then makes occasional dashes off the beaten path to take in things such as Imtiaz Dharker’s lovely poem Crab-Apples and even one poem by that gruff bastion of inaccessibility Geoffrey Hill (Ode on the Loss of the Titanic). If you feel as though your life is lacking a bit of poetry, this is an excellent place to start.

Product details

• Authors: Allie Esiri
• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781529054828
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-5482-8
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 243 mm x 56 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, Holidays & seasonal interest, Gift books, Holidays, events and seasonal interest, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Poetry (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage: Poetry, Children’s / Teenage: Anthologies