Penguin’s Poems for Weddings

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For the many thousands of readers who have been delighted by Laura Barber’s earlier anthologies, this book is 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 presents an 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.

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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.

Additional information

Weight 179 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xix, 207

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.00803543 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K