Penguin's Poems for Weddings

by Laura Barber (Editor)

A wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to loveFor the many thousands of readers who have been delighted by Laura Barber's earlier anthologies, this wonderful new book is filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love. It is a book to be referred to constantly and, like Penguin's Poems for Love, it belongs on the short shelf of truly essential anthologies.For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremony, Laura Barber's anthology is the answer to a prayer, with a wonderfully generous and unusual selection of poems suitable for reading out loud and which celebrate and encapsulate in all our bewildering diversity how we wish to express our deepest feelings.

Genres: Poetry

203 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 5, 2014

Reviews

[Lucia Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of my favourites:
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Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her - Christopher Brennan

Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare

A Betrothal - E.J. Scovell

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear
(This one is a long time favourite of mine)

Two by Emily Dickinson. First sentences:
It was a quiet way —
&
Of all the Souls that stand create —

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This seems like a collection chosen more for the price of the various copyrights than for the poems' aptness for the subject.

[Marloes · Rating 3 out of 5]

lovely ❤️