Winning Words

by William Sieghart

Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most magical moments. From William Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, our most popular and best loved poets and poems are gathered in one essential collection, alongside many lesser known treasures that are waiting to be discovered. These are poems that help you to see the miraculous in the commonplace and turn the everyday into the exceptional - to discover, in Kipling's words, that yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.

Genres: Poetry, Literature

240 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2012

Reviews

[Prudence · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favorite poetry collections. I saw Helena Bonham Carter with a copy and immediately went on a search for one, which has been a wonderful decision. I often open to random pages and read whatever's there, and nothing in this selection ever fails to make me think. Certainly, you can read it straight through, which sometimes I do, but I find that I much prefer just falling into this one.

[K Bulseco Yenogacio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick short read for today. I discovered this anthology while watching an interview of Helena Bonham Carter where she shared "The End" by A.A. Milne. Though my favorite would be Raymond Carver's "Late Fragment".

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

[Anca · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good collection of uplifting poems.

[Ginger Nicholls · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been reading mainly biographies and autobiographies, wasn't that interested in poetry. But picked this one up at the library one day when I was in a hurry and loved it. Many well known poems and inspirational poems.

[Rupinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good collection of poems. I found many of my old favorites (If, Invictus, Say not the struggle..., etc.) in this book, and discovered many new gems, including “I know why the caged bird sings,” “Being boring,” and “Still I rise.”

[Stephen Hoffman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A selection of poems which embrace the beauty of nature.

[Nicholas Tamouridis Poet · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a truly endearing and enlightening collection of arguably the greatest collection of poems in history carefully selected by William Sieghart!

Out of 159 poems, 14 of them really hit home with me and they are as follows!

• High Flight ( An Airman’s Ecstasy) by John Gillespie Magee
• a small part from The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• a small part from Ovid’s Elegies by Christopher Marlowe
• The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe
• All That Is Good Does Not Glitter by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Fare Well by Walter De La Mare
• Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep by Mary E. Frye
• I Am by John Clare
• The Daffodils by William Wordsworth
• Dead Woman by Pablo Neruda
• Leisure by William Henry Davies
• The Old World by Charles Simic
• She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron (check out full review below!
• a small part from Little Gidding by T.S. Elliot

Any questions as to why I liked certain poems, comment below!

[Emilie Anderssen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars