Book description
Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at
first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply' of infatuation and on to the
'eternally' of love that lasts beyond the end of life, along the way
taking in flirtation, passion, fury, betrayal and broken hearts.
Bringing together the greatest love poetry from around the world and
through the ages, ranging from W. H. Auden to William Shakespeare, John
Donne to Emily Dickinson, Robert Browning to Roger McGough, this new
anthology will delight, comfort and inspire anyone who has ever tasted
love - in any of its forms. Laura Barber is not a poet, but she has
spent the last few years completely immersed in verse. As the editor of
Penguin's
Poems for Life
and Penguin's Poems by Heart
, she has lived, breathed and dreamed poetry - in libraries and on
lawns, on beaches and in bed - and can testify to the profound effect
that poetry can have on your life. More prosaically, she also publishes
contemporary literature and is writing a book. She lives in London.
