Christmas is coming...and it must be official as Allie Esiri says so. In her latest brilliant book of poetry A Book for Every Day of Christmas. It's the eleventh title in the hugely popular series, and we are big fans here at LoveReading. Poems for every season, every day and night of the year, Shakespeare and nursery rhymes too!
This treasure of an anthology will walk you through the festive period with aplomb giving you a poetry treat for every day of December. Esiri's favourite Christmas poems - and yours - feature Brian Bilston's Needles in the shape of a Christmas tree. For now. One of my all time faves Christina Rossetti's In The Bleak Midwinter (that I can still remember to this day after learning it at school), Charles Causley, TS Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Lemn Sissay and the late great Benjamin Zephaniah all feature, right through the days 'til Auld Lang Syne and Robert Burns finishes it to perfection.
The sort of book that will become part of your Christmas tradition, year in year out, right alongside your glass of mulled wine, presents under the Christmas tree and a carrot and mince pie for Santa. It really is the season to be jolly.
This stunning hardback gift book is the perfect pocket-sized stocking-filler for everyone on your list.
A Poem for Every Day of Christmas is a splendid collection of thirty-one poems, compiled by award-winning anthologist Allie Esiri, to take you through the month of December.
Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with friends and family, this book is the ideal companion for the holiday season. It features festive poems and carols by Brian Bilston, Robert Burns, Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Christina Rossetti. E. E. Cummings, Dylan Thomas, Clement Clarke Moore and many more.
The day-to-day format of this fabulous and fun anthology invites readers to make poetry a part of their holiday season.
Allie Esiri, described in a Tatler profile as 'a poetry powerhouse', is a former English stage, film and television actress, now a writer.
Her iF Poems app was launched to great acclaim in November 2011 and was the Apple Editors' Choice All Time Favourite app. iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility was published in 2012 and The Love Book in 2014.
She has hosted poetry events at The Times and the Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, The Sunday Times Festival of Education and The Oldie Soho Literary Festival.
