Description
This stunning hardback gift book is the perfect pocket-sized stocking-filler for everyone on your list.
A Poem for Every Day of Christmas is a splendid collection of thirty-one poems, compiled by award-winning anthologist Allie Esiri, to take you through the month of December.
Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with friends and family, this book is the ideal companion for the holiday season. It features festive poems and carols by Brian Bilston, Robert Burns, Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Christina Rossetti. E. E. Cummings, Dylan Thomas, Clement Clarke Moore and many more.
The day-to-day format of this fabulous and fun anthology invites you to make poetry a part of your festive season.
About the Author
Allie Esiri, who read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University, is an accomplished curator and host of live poetry events at The National Theatre, The Bridge Theatre, and at Hay, Oxford, Bath and Cheltenham literary festivals. Her anthology A Poem for Every Day of the Year was in the best books of the year list in The Times and the Observer and the audiobook is read by Helena Bonham Carter and Simon Russell Beale.
Zanna Goldhawk creates her illustrations from her seaside cottage in Cornwall. She takes huge inspiration from nature and animals, and has a mild obsession with colour and pattern (and coffee). Zanna studied illustration at the University of Gloucestershire, where she started her illustrated gifts and stationery business Papio Press with her husband. Now she splits her time between designing beautiful products and illustrating gorgeous books.
Reviews
Poetry Anthologist Allie Esiri has picked 31 festive verses to read for every day of December. There's an ode to oxen by Thomas Hardy; a rhyme about Christmas Eve traffic by Wendy Cope; and a poem by Brian Bilston written in the shape of a Christmas tree. A perfect present. * You Magazine *
Book Information
ISBN 9781035068388
Author Allie Esiri
Format Hardback
Page Count 80
Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 172g
Dimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 11mm
