A Poem for Every Day of the Year

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Particular favourites of mine included Love's Philosophy by Percy Shelley, The Buddha by Tony Mitton and the very famous The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. There's also an excellent extract from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which in itself is a play of pure poetry. As such the poems are rich in diversity and carry with them varying degrees of complexity. Although published by Macmillan Children's Books, I think this collection is more suited to an adult reader. There are, certainly, poems in here that a young reader may enjoy, but I think an adult would get more out of poems that deal with larger issues such as love, death and life. What a year it's been! I haven't actually finished the book yet, but I'll forget to update goodreads later so its now or never.

Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new discoveries. T.S.Eliot, John Betjeman, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare and Christina Rossetti sit alongside Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy, and Kae Tempest. A Poem For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. Before each poem is a short introduction to briefly situate the poem into its context. These are helpful and informative, and for the inexperienced reader these would act as a guide through many different styles of poetry from a huge array of writers. The cover art is, simply put, stunning. I love the design. The book acts as a sister book to the previously published A Poem for Every Night of the Year with brighter colours used to reflect the day time this time. The layout is also very simple making the book easy to dive in and out of.

Finished this 10 days early. I was trying to read one a day but now I want to wrap up my challenges at the end of the year, lol.

For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and easy commitment to take on. Reading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly. I broke the rule though and read it all at once. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new discoveries. Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti and Emily Bronte sit alongside Roger McGough, Wendy Cope, Imtiaz Dharker, Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath and Ocean Vuong. New Statesman Not only is it a thing of beauty, it also offers an accessible, informative, bitesize approach to poetry. 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, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating, and empowering! Allie Esiri’s beautiful gift anthology, A Poet for Every Day of the Year, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world’s greatest ever verse writers.Lots of classics in here and a mix of newer poets also. Some are funny, thoughtful, inspiring, humbling. The Contents of A Poet for Every Day of the Year list the poem and poet for each calendar day although I prefer not to look at that properly until next year when I’ve enjoyed a daily surprise from the book. With poets from Angelou to Wordsworth there really is something for any and every reader. One of the absolute pleasures here is the attention to more marginalised poets such as those from the LGBTQIA+ community so that A Poet for Every Day of the Year feels inclusive and engaging. Quite a few of the poems relate to wars and the Christian calendar, and that’s not what I want on a day to day basis (I’d seek those kind of poems out for specific reasons). One was about a dead cat. On 15th February we were given the lyrics to The Beatles’ ��All you need is love’, rather than an actual poem. So this is where I stopped. Beautiful collection of poetry. It took me nearly four years to finish, occasionally reading some poems, but I loved this volume and will be looking for something similar to read in the future. I won’t say I’ve became a poem lover overnight, but this was a great stepping stone into a world previously unknown.

This seemed like the perfect book to test the water. It contains a great verity of poems. All styles and authors. All lengths and sizes. Best Poetry Books of the Year, The Times For the whole family but especially eight-plus readers, A Poem for Every Day of the Year... gorgeously presented and intelligently selected.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, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating, and empowering! Each of the 366 poems features a small introduction that gives a sense of who the writer was, and not just the greatness of their work. Some offer insightful biographical details or key historical context, while others may provide quirky, humorous anecdotes.

As with every ' a (insert name) a day' book, I started off well. Reading a poem a day and wanting to read more was great, then I kind of forgot about it and left it at my parents which is why I read four months' worth of poems yesterday+today, whoops. The experience of working my way through this book over the course of the year has been very positive. Being able to pull out this beautiful volume and take a palate-cleanser for whatever else I have been reading (or doing) has been restorative, even in a year where I have read a lot of contemporary poetry.When you buy your copy from the National Theatre Bookshop, you support the work of the National Theatre. Allie Esiri will be donating profits from the sale of her books on the night to the DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. Most of the poems were not really my piece of cake, but that's what you get with a collection: a variety of poetic doems, themes, and writers. And the good thing is, a collection makes discovering new writers easy. It kind of forced me out of my small bubble and I added some poets on my to-read-more-of list :)