Book description
With The Picador Book of Love Poems, award-winning poet John Stammers
has created a unique collection: by pairing some of the finest love
poems from centuries past with modern counterparts, he presents a book
of surprising connections, echoes and juxtapositions, where classic and
contemporary love poems shed new and unexpected light on one another.
Here, old favourites from Spenser to Tennyson sit side by side with
poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Michael Donaghy, the distance between the
poets closed by their single timeless theme. Whether you're feeling
tempted, seduced, tormented, or rejected, or falling in love, or out of
love - this is the perfect book to inspire, console, and give a voice to
every facet of our deepest and most complex human emotion.
John Stammers read philosophy at King's College London and is an
Associate of Kings' College. His first collection, Panoramic
Lounge-Bar, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First
Collection 2001 and shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award 2001.
His second collection, Stolen Love Behaviour, was a Poetry Book
Society Choice. He was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at the University of
Cambridge. He is a creative writing tutor and freelance writer. He
lives in Hampstead, London with his wife and their two sons.
