A Poem for Every Autumn Day

Description

Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous collection, A Poem for Every Autumn Day you will find verse that will transport you to vibrant autumnal scenes, from harvest festival to Remembrance Day. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, this book dazzles with an array of familiar favourites and remarkable new discoveries selected from Allie Esiri's bestselling poetry anthologies. These seasonal poems - together with introductory paragraphs - have a link to the date on which they appear. Includes poems by W. H. Auden, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Betjeman, William Shakespeare and Christina Rossetti who sit alongside Seamus Heaney, John Agard, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. This soul-enhancing book will keep you company for every day of your life.

Allie Esiri, who read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University, is an accomplished curator and host of live poetry events at The National Theatre, The Bridge Theatre, and at Hay, Oxford, Bath and Cheltenham literary festivals. 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 and the audiobook is read by Helena Bonham Carter and Simon Russell Beale. 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 2017 book award.