Penguin's Poems for Weddings

by Laura Barber (Editor)

Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love. 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 our deepest feelings in all their bewildering diversity. Including verse by poets ranging from John Keats to Carol Ann Duffy and Walt Whitman to W. H. Auden, as well as many less familiar voices, this anthology offers numerous options for anyone about to read at the wedding of family or friends, or to celebrate their own.

Genres: Poetry

240 pages, Paperback

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 ❤️