A Poem for Every Day of the Year

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Allie Esiri will be donating profits from the sale of her books on the night to the DEC’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. Children individually or in pairs could select a poem to share with the class, having a different poem shared each day. I listened in my bath, I listened in my bed, I listened all thro' wintertime till Spring had reared its head.

Being able to pull out this beautiful volume and take a palate-cleanser for whatever else I have been reading (or doing) has been restorative, even in a year where I have read a lot of contemporary poetry.The book acts as a sister book to the previously published A Poem for Every Night of the Year with brighter colours used to reflect the day time this time.

Some offer insightful biographical details or key historical context, while others may provide quirky, humorous anecdotes. Perfect for listening to with all the family, this audiobook is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new discoveries. This collection is part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, and is divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter. A. Milne and Christina Rossetti sit alongside Roger McGough, Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah. 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.

The experience of working my way through this book over the course of the year has been very positive.

I found this was perfect for in the morning or at the end of the day and students also volunteered to read some of the poems out to the whole class which was brilliant for their reading and when it came to speech work in English.

I’m not really a fan of the format; each piece of information could have been in separate lines or columns.