Spring is in the air
Published on Monday 2 March 2020
Sunshine and showers, cuckoos, frogs, daffodils and cherry blossom…. Poets writing about spring certainly have no shortage of material.
Our selection of poems takes in many of these yearly delights. There are contemporary voices – a poem in which a dog sniffs around a city park and enjoys the new smells, and another where an “immortal frog” seems to promise the speaker fresh hope and a return to good health.
This delightful mini-anthology provides a taste of the countless ways in which this most uplifting of seasons has been celebrated in verse over the centuries.
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Poems celebrating winter’s stark beauty
Published on Thursday 26 November 2020
Winter seems to divide opinion more than any other season; we love it or we definitely don’t! The poems in this mini-anthology are guaranteed to delight readers of every persuasion; we encounter muddy walks, ice-skating, cosy fires, chilblains and even a snow pudding. There’s also a Skype meeting between a child and a grandparent – […]
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Christmas with Candlestick: three special events to light up the long December nights
Published on Wednesday 18 November 2020
This year, when we all need the warm glow of Christmas more than ever, we’re doing our very best to bring some festive cheer with no less than three online events celebrating our Christmas titles past and present. All our events are free. Our trio of heart-warming readings will delight old and young, poetry lovers […]
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Instead of a Christmas card – irresistible festive titles guaranteed to delight
Published on Friday 2 October 2020
In a year when nothing is as it should be, much-loved traditions such as those associated with Christmas seem doubly important. Our Christmas titles this year are as beautiful as ever (each with an irresistible cover created by a leading UK artist) but focus even more keenly on the idea of poetry as a precious […]
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