The Picador Book of Love Poems

The Picador Book of Love Poems

by JohnStammers (Author)

Synopsis

With The Picador Book of Love Poems, award-winning poet John Stammers has created a unique collection: by pairing some of the finest love poems from centuries past with modern counterparts, he presents a book of surprising connections, echoes and juxtapositions, where classic and contemporary love poems shed new and unexpected light on one another. Here, old favourites from Spenser to Tennyson sit side by side with poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Michael Donaghy, the distance between the poets closed by their single timeless theme. Whether you're feeling tempted, seduced, tormented, or rejected, or falling in love, or out of love - this is the perfect book to inspire, console, and give a voice to every facet of our deepest and most complex human emotion.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Publisher: Picador
Published: 05 Jan 2012

ISBN 10: 0330456881
ISBN 13: 9780330456883

Author Bio
John Stammers read philosophy at King's College London and is an Associate of King's College. His first collection, Panoramic Lounge-Bar, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2001 and shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award 2001. His second collection, Stolen Love Behaviour, was a Poetry Book Society Choice. He was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a creative writing tutor and freelance writer. His latest collection is Interior Night. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and their two sons.