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.







The Lover's Pinch
New and Selected Poems. Volume One
States of Happiness
The Tamarit Poems
Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods
Steep Tea
Snaring Heaven
Being Alive
Comic Poems
Dog Poems
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Milk and Honey
Somewhere Else Entirely
Pretend You Don't Know Me
Gold from the Stone
Ten Poems About Gardens