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.







Selections from "What Language Do You Expect the First Priest to Use?" A Work in Progress
I Don't Like Poetry
This Is Yarrow
Being Alive
Steep Tea
Hansel and Gretel
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
Let Us Compare Mythologies
States of Happiness
Beloved
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Strong in the Rain