ThePicador Book of Love Poems by Stammers, John ( Author ) ON Jan-05-2012, Paperback

by John Stammers

With The Picador Book of Love Poems, award-winning poet John Stammers has created a unique 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.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Kristen · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good mix of classic and contemporary poems. Statistically not a great mix of poems by men and women, the poems by men far outweighing the number of poems written by women, which I think could have been more evenly split.
There were a few poems in here that I really loved, and a whole bunch that I just don’t think I understood.
Am I just not smart enough for poetry? Perhaps.

[Hilary RB · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice collection of poems about love, lust, break ups, new beginnings and one of my favourites… about being walked in on by the kids.

[Iris Windmeijer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love this collection, there is always a poem present that fits the mood and it contains the most beautiful classics alongside magnificent contemporary poems.