Description
Words of sadness and loss, comfort and consolation
Summoning the words to express our feelings of loss for a loved one in the days following a death can feel almost impossible. And often the choice of readings available can seem daunting.
Poems and Readings for Funerals is a carefully curated collection of the very wisest words about death by some of the world’s greatest poets, thinkers, playwrights and novelists.
Featuring beautifully and thoughtfully written poems, prose extracts and prayers, these readings have been chosen to move and console, sympathize and relieve – to bring everyone attending a funeral or memorial closer together.





A Thousand Mornings
28 Poems
The Skies Above My Eyes
The Mighty Stream
New and Selected Poems. Volume One
Soho
Winning Words
Will Burns
Cat Poems
Love Poems
The Arches
Signs Like This
Selected Poems
Spiritlands
Tidings of Comfort and Joy