Penguin's Poems for Weddings
- ISBN-10
- 0141394706
- ISBN-13
- 9780141394701
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-03-02
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Author
- Laura Barber
Description
Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love. For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremony, Laura Barber's anthology is the answer to a prayer, with a wonderfully generous and unusual selection of poems suitable for reading out loud, and which celebrate and encapsulate our deepest feelings in all their bewildering diversity. Including verse by poets ranging from John Keats to Carol Ann Duffy and Walt Whitman to W. H. Auden, as well as many less familiar voices, this anthology offers numerous options for anyone about to read at the wedding of family or friends, or to celebrate their own.
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