Description
Everybody wants a christening, wedding or funeral service to be unique to them and one of the main ways of personalising a ceremony is to choose one’s own readings. Not everyone reads poetry or novels together and many do not know where to start in choosing a special piece. Here, an experienced editor of such books has collected together 100 readings from scripture and literature across the centuries in celebration of a birth, a marriage, a life that has ended. There is humour, tenderness, challenge, wisdom and realism in abundance, offering, quite literally, something for everyone.







Milk and Honey
Gold from the Stone
The Lover's Pinch
New and Selected Poems. Volume One
States of Happiness
Ten Poems About Clouds
Immrama
The 'White City'
Swansea Automatic
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind (Edited by Jonathan Bate)
Fauverie
Being Alive
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Floss
River Lane
This Is Yarrow
Advance Payment: Selected Poems Translated by David Colmer
Strong in the Rain
Santa's Greatest Gift
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
My Family and Other Superheroes
Ten Poems About Gardens