This is a book of poetry designed - and illustrated - to be something to share first-hand with a child. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. 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).

it's a poem *for* every day of the year and the selection of poems is tied to significant anniversaries and events in particular. I stopped reading these every day and couldn't bring myself to come back to it, deciding to dedicate that time towards reading more contemporary poetry collections instead. Besides, that way I was able to kind of share the reading experience throughout the seasons and events (and with nice/fitting images and videos, too)! Though aimed at children, there is nothing childish about the anthology A Poem for Every Night of the Year, edited by Allie Esiri - a reminder that poetry is for everyone and for every day (or night).Shakespeare celebrates midsummer night, Maya Angelou for International Women's Day and Lewis Carroll on April Fool's day. It made me think of cheap toilet paper with a poem a day printed on it, that would probably have made me fit it in to a daily reading. Most of those written down date from the 16th, 17th and, most frequently, the 18th centuries: a mixture of advisory tales for children, popular ballads, political songs and sometimes bawdy little numbers. A terrific compendium of modern and classical poetry, encompassing sad and serious, light-hearted and happy verses and ranging across a variety of forms.

She offers poetry for the small things in life, the every day, and I can't think of anything more life enhancing than opening this book each evening to sweeten the passage of time. iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility was published in 2012 and The Love Book in 2014. I hope that there is a poem here for everyone – something for every night and every mood and every person, whose lines never leave you but remain inside the private library of your brain, and whose beauty you feel as Wordsworth did: along the heart.I understand the idea of what Esiri wants to do, but there are more than 365 poems out there in the world for inclusion to fill those spaces, so I was turned off by the dips into non-poetry—it felt a bit like a cop-out. Explore why a wool duvet is the ultimate sleep solution, offering benefits like temperature regulation, moisture-wicking, and resistance to dust mites. These poems are funny, thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating, and empowering! For most of us, our references come from that master work of the mid-20th century, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, assembled by the folklorists - and parents of our own nostalgia guru Robert Opie - Iona and Peter Opie.

Floella Benjamin, for example, has written one about lockdown, which I thought was important as a way to record that brief but cataclysmic period of our lives. A flamboyantly miscellaneous list of authors ranges from Sappho to AA Milne and from Langston Hughes to Charles 1. The poems are selected from Allie Esiri’s bestselling poetry anthologies A Poem for Every Day of the Yearand A Poem for Every Night of the Year. Rowling’s The Sorting Hat Song which first appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, is the poem for 10 September – the start of the school year for many, even those not at Hogwarts. Despite its richly decorated cover illustration, it is a weighty tome, more suited to adult hands, than children's.I've discovered quite a few poets through this collection though, and I'd love to make it a goal for 2022 to check out more of their works! Over the past four decades her work has examined nature, womanhood, art, music, Welsh history – and always with the lyric and imagistic precision by which her poetry is instantly recognisable.

A message from Gaby Morgan, Editorial Director at Pan MacmillanA beautiful collection of 366 poems from familiar favourites to exciting contemporary voices, one to share on every night of the year. Allie Esiri has set herself an ambitious task in undertaking to provide a poem for every night of the year. From cold and wintry ones in January, to love songs in February, through tongue twisters and riddles in March and all the ones about playing and partying in the summer months.

And there are poems on certain dates that tell us about the traditions of other cultures and religions.