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Poetry Please: Love Poems

Hardback

Main Details

Title Poetry Please: Love Poems
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Various Poets
SeriesPoetry Please
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 204,Width 137
Category/GenrePoetry anthologies
ISBN/Barcode 9780571315994
ClassificationsDewey:808.8193543
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 15 January 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'What will survive of us is love.' In this new anthology poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning an beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, this new gathering of timeless love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of themes. Whether in marriage or heartbreak, friendship or infatuation, whether in pursuit of the unattainable ideal or else settling down together for life, whether in love or out of it, you will find poems here to touch the heart. A vital assembly of our most treasured and enduring love poems.

Author Biography

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to one million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.