Ten Poems about Love

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This second edition of our popular mini-anthology calls at every stop on love's roller-coaster journey – from the first dizzy declarations of passion, to the clear-eyed devotion of a couple in old age. In one of the most celebrated of modern love poems, we sense the boundless optimism of love at full tilt:

\"...you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you\"
- from 'i carry your heart with me' by ee cummings

Along the way there’s also humour and warmth in the form of a battered straw hat that has come to symbolise what it means to be together for the long haul. These are poems that capture all the light and shade of love; poems to make you think and feel.

The selection is edited and introduced by Lorraine Mariner, a poet and librarian who works at the National Poetry Library in London.

Poems by Fleur Adcock, John Ashbery, ee cummings, Tishani Doshi, Lorraine Mariner, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Sinéad Morrissey, Peter Sansom, Alfred Lord Tennyson and RS Thomas.

Cover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows.

Supplied with envelope and bookmark.

ISBN: 9781907598821
Author: MARINER, LORRAINE
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01/12/2022
RRP: $14.99
Pages: 20
Dimension: 210mm X 137mm
Imprint: Candlestick Press