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- ISBN 9781849949620
- Dimensions: 135 x 185mm
- Publication Date: 08 May 2025
- Publisher: Batsford
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A handy poetry companion to keep around in times of difficulty.
This supportive anthology of 100 specially chosen poems is here to help. Whatever the shape of your struggle, there's a poem here to guide you through it, providing a shoulder to cry on or a helping hand. There are meditations on the nature of life, grief, and memory, and how the fabric of life and death weave together. Poets young and old, classic and contemporary, give their perspectives on loss all across the spectrum of love, from pets to partners to abstract ideas.
This collection of poems includes the likes of Shakespeare's timeless observations, Maya Angelou's thoughtful philosophising, the ancient wisdom of Lao Tzu, and much much more. You can trust in the poetry of some of the brightest and most sensitive minds throughout history to reach out to you through your feelings to offer you relief and understanding in confusing times.
Following on from 100 Happy Poems and 100 Poems to Help You Sleep, this is a collection of poems that will help you feel a little less alone in your time of need.
Liz Ison studied English Literature at Cambridge, before training as a speech and language therapist. She has a doctorate from UCL for research into childhood speech and literacy development. In 2015, after ten years in education research for the UK government, Liz trained with British charity The Reader and has since been running shared reading groups, in person and online. Liz lives in London.
