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.







Being Alive
Bridge 116
Beloved
Poem About Music
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Beat Poets
Just Like Brothers
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
The Moon Before Morning
Soemps
Counting Backwards
Notes on Water
Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles
Comic Poems
Meet My Folks!
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Hansel and Gretel
Pretend You Don't Know Me
Steep Tea
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes
Short Days, Long Shadows
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Jinx
The Curse Of The School Rabbit
A Poem for Every Summer Day