Today is National Poetry Day so to celebrate we have picked out our four favourite poetry anthologies:
New in today. Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy and the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke have curated this anthology of poetry that has shaped the language of Britain and Ireland.
A Poet’s Guide to Britain £10.99
Under the headings of six varieties of British landscape – London and Cities, Villages and Towns, Mountains and Moorland, Islands, Woods and Forest, and Coast and Sea. This is like having a guided tour around Britain from writers including William Wordsworth, T.S Eliot, Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy.
Poems on the Underground £9.99
Many a tube journey has been saved from dullness by the overhead poetry posters. From classic to contemporary, covering a wealth of themes, this collection of short poems is the ideal travel companion.
This selection of famous poems is divided into seven sections representing the seven stages of man. Birth and beginnings, childhood and childish things, growing up and first impressions, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, intimations of mortality and mourning.