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VARIOUS. POETS

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, work, food, travel, love and learning - in some kind of balance, so you can go back to star-gazing again . . . Taking as its starting point the classic 'wheel of balance' life-coach model, this beautifully packaged collection of extracts and short poems gathers wisdom old and new in a perfect gift for anyone who needs comfort in this f**ked up world of ours. 'This is not a poetry book as you know it, this is a life raft.' Emerald Street on Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t.

Poems to Fix a F**ked-Up World

Faber & Faber, Limited

The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen the list grow with the addition of poets who are arguably the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list. The poets in this year's diary are: Emily Berry, William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Clare, Sophie Collins, Julia Copus, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Zbigniew Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Housman, Ted Hughes, Ben Jonson, John Keats, Zaffar Kunial, Philip Larkin, Lachlan Mackinnon, Louis MacNeice, John Milton, William Morris, Bernard O'Donoghue, Sylvia Plath, Maurice Riordan, Sam Riviere, Christina Rosetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Hannah Sullivan, Wislawa Szymborska, Edward Thomas, Jack Underwood, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats.

Liberty Faber Poetry Diary 2020

The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are arguably the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list. The poets in the 2021 edition are: Rachael Allen Simon Armitage William Blake Elizabeth Barrett-Browning Mary Jean Chan John Clare Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wendy Cope Emily Dickinson John Donne Joe Dunthorne T.S. Eliot Oliver Goldsmith Lavinia Greenlaw Thomas Hardy David Harsent Seamus Heaney Ted Hughes Ishion Hutchinson Ebenezer Jones Ilya Kaminsky Rudyard Kipling Nick Laird Philip Larkin Charlotte Mew Paul Muldoon Daljit Nagra Don Paterson Sylvia Plath Christopher Reid Christina Rossetti Richard Scott William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward Thomas Derek Walcott William Wordsworth W. B. Yeats

VARIOUS. POETS

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