From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, and a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, and Carol Ann Duffy, this book includes love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of themes.
From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, and a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, and Carol Ann Duffy...
Sometimes it's hard to keep looking up at the stars when the gutter we're in seems so full of sh*t. But isn't that why we need poetry? Oscar Wilde wrote some of his best poetry when he was in prison for 'the love that dare not speak its name'. Nelson Mandela held fast to his 'unconquerable soul' on Robben Island with the help of the words a poet wrote about his battle with tuberculosis a century before. So maybe it's not inconceivable that the words in this little book could help you put some of the sh*t in perspective, get all the important bits of your life - like sleep,...
Sometimes it's hard to keep looking up at the stars when the gutter we're in seems so full of sh*t. But isn't that why we need poetry? Oscar W...
