Description
Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime – poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion
‘Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness’ DAME JUDI DENCH
Includes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year
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A POEM CAN . . .
Comfort · Challenge · Be a friend
Stretch your vocabulary
Help you sleep · Break the ice
Find you a lover · Be utter nonsense
Console · Make you laugh – or cry
For every moment in your life there is a poem.
In Dancing by the Light of the Moon we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world.
Allow Gyles Brandreth to be your guide to not only the wonders of poetry – and there are many – but also its practical uses in everyday life.
Whether seeking some words to reflect your mood, wanting to celebrate or mark an occasion or simply looking for lines of comfort and joy in difficult times, this collection has everything for readers of poetry both young and old, novices and old hands alike, will love and return to again and again.
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‘Over 400 pages of top-notch poems by everyone from Shakespeare to Simon Armitage’ Daily Mail
‘A collection of poems that will transform your memory and change your life’ Dr Max Pemberton







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Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth
Ten Songs for Spring
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes
Love Poems
The Last Poems of Jules Laforgue
John Keats
Let's Celebrate!
The Troll
The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland
Room On The Broom
Selected Poetry
52 Ways of Looking At a Poem
There Are Girls Like Lions