A Poem for Every Night of the Year

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There is a companion book of poetry called A Poem for Every Day of the Year, and though I haven’t read the companion yet I do want to mention that the night theme in this book felt appropriate to its content. Many of the poems explore night or death or war; there are a few love poems as well, but in essence this is a darker and perhaps heavier collection than I would expect to find in the companion edition. If you’d rather read something a bit contemplative and grim, this may be the poetry book for you. For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and easy commitment to take on. Reading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly. I broke the rule though and read it all at once.

Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments It turns out, it's quite beautiful to have a poem to read every night of the year. I loved crawling into bed and falling asleep to the well-composed words of Keats, Yeats, A. A. Milne and Tennyson. And best of all, I discovered some new favourites as well.Though I did not fall in love with every poem, I did enjoy most of them and it was great to have a poem to read before bed each night. As a child I had a book like this, something I read before I went to sleep every night. I never missed a night for years. So when I saw this my heart leapt.

This is a book of poems marketed at children, but the selection is suitable for everyone and includes work by Shakespeare, Keats, Blake and Benjamin Zephaniah. I particularly like how the poetry matches with the seasons and days such as All Fools' Day, May Day, as well as Christmas and Easter, and historical anniversaries such as the Battle of Hastings, Rosa Parks and El Alamein. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - Vintage nursery rhyme image from Wikimedia Commons What can we expect from A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year? Allie Esiri's delightfully eclectic anthology takes you on a poetic journey through every night of the calendar year. A fun book for all the family to enjoy. Tatler Finished this 10 days early. I was trying to read one a day but now I want to wrap up my challenges at the end of the year, lol.Die Mischung ist unausgeglichen. Manchmal folgen ein paar Tage aufeinander Gedichte der selben Autoren. Ich verstehe die Logik dahinter gleich mehrere Werke einer Person vorstellen zu wollen, aber ich fand das nicht besonders abwechslungsreich. As with every ' a (insert name) a day' book, I started off well. Reading a poem a day and wanting to read more was great, then I kind of forgot about it and left it at my parents which is why I read four months' worth of poems yesterday+today, whoops. Nursery Rhyme: first recorded in 1816; a simple or traditional poem or song for children” - Oxford English Dictionary I have to say that I am not a fan of poetry. I have also realized that I like modern poetry more than the classical poems. I like the idea of reading one poem every night before you go to bed. So I’m glad that Trish brought this book to my attention. Poetry, of course, is something that will not always work for everyone at any given time. You have to be in the right frame of mind for some poems to work. And it’s only natural that not all of them will be easily accessible. Especially for a non-native speaker like myself. It was always clear this was going to be a mixed bag.

I posted updates whenever there was a poem I especially liked. So if you want to have a look you can just scroll down. It should be something between 30 and 40 poems. And I think there was a similar number of poems that I enjoyed reading too. But it didn’t feel right to post such a huge amount of content from the book. So, that’s about 20% that I enjoyed reading. The rest? Well, for some reason or the other I didn’t connect with those poems, and some I thought were simply bad. Those were only a handful, though. However doing this isn't going to help anyone find books that are right for them so I need to stop. 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. A Poem For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. These poems are funny, thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating, and empowering!

However, the little description for each day was great, whether it be to explain the poem selection or the date significance. Though the "During the First/Second world war" sort of poems got a bit repetitive and the focus on the Christian Holidays possibly a bit isolating. So starts the last poem in "A Poem For Every Day of the Year" edited by Allie Esiri. The poem being "Ring out, wild bells" by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Particular favourites of mine included Love's Philosophy by Percy Shelley, The Buddha by Tony Mitton and the very famous The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. There's also an excellent extract from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which in itself is a play of pure poetry. As such the poems are rich in diversity and carry with them varying degrees of complexity. Although published by Macmillan Children's Books, I think this collection is more suited to an adult reader. There are, certainly, poems in here that a young reader may enjoy, but I think an adult would get more out of poems that deal with larger issues such as love, death and life. This seemed a fun way to discover poetry. Turns out it isn’t for me, I can’t seem to “get” the poems, it doesn’t make sense to me, and maybe that’s the point of poetry, but I didn’t enjoy it. Lots of classics in here and a mix of newer poets also. Some are funny, thoughtful, inspiring, humbling.