A Poem for Every Night of the Year

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A Poem For Every Night of the Year is a collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share for every night of the year. The poems - together with introductory paragraphs - have a link to the date on which they appear. While I do think it’s entirely acceptable to read a book like this at your own pace and inclination, I will say that the historical significance of the poems, included in the introductory paragraphs, was one of the highlights of the experience for me. Connecting the poems to a holiday or war or event piqued my interest in the corresponding poems. Not every poem fit its date exactly, but the ones that did were more fun to read on the appropriate days. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments So why a three star rating? It just isn’t a numbers game with those kind of books. Rating poetry is highly subjective anyway. And three stars feels about right for the overall experience.

The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac: The official magical companion to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books I think it’s only right to end this review with my favorite poem of the year (maybe - it’s not easy to decide). Some of the poets featured are Shakespeare, Maya Angelou, Lewis Carroll, Yeats, A.A. Milne, Christina Rosetti, Carol and Duffy and many more.I like the idea of reading one poem every night before you go to bed. So I’m glad that Trish brought this book to my attention. Poetry, of course, is something that will not always work for everyone at any given time. You have to be in the right frame of mind for some poems to work. And it’s only natural that not all of them will be easily accessible. Especially for a non-native speaker like myself. It was always clear this was going to be a mixed bag.

This useful anthology is aimed at children but I can't think of anyone who wouldn't enjoy it. The target audience ensures accessibility as well as a satisfying blend of light and shade, while Esiri's introduction is a model of economyand enthusiasm. She offers poetry for the small things in life, the every day, and I can't think of anything more life enhancing than opening this book each evening to sweeten the passage of time. -- Bel Mooney The Daily Mail Some poems were really enjoyable some were not. There was a good mix of styles and topics. I didn't like the paper this was printed on, very rough, absorbent news paper, not what I want to find in a book. It made me think of cheap toilet paper with a poem a day printed on it, that would probably have made me fit it in to a daily reading. Before each poem is a short introduction to briefly situate the poem into its context. These are helpful and informative, and for the inexperienced reader these would act as a guide through many different styles of poetry from a huge array of writers. The cover art is, simply put, stunning. I love the design. The book acts as a sister book to the previously published A Poem for Every Night of the Year with brighter colours used to reflect the day time this time. The layout is also very simple making the book easy to dive in and out of. Allie Esiri’s beautiful gift anthology, A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year, is a definitive collection of nursery rhymes, with enchanting illustrations by Emily Faccini. Die Gedichte haben keine Jahreszahlen. Manchmal wird ihr Erscheinungsjahr im Introtext genannt, aber ich hätte diese Information gern bei jedem Gedicht neben Titel und Autoren gesehen.For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and easy commitment to take on. Reading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly. I broke the rule though and read it all at once. The celebration of ridiculousness in a nursery rhyme. Vintage image for Hey Diddle from WikiMedia Commons What might we find surprising in your notes alongside the nursery rhymes in A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year? This seemed like the perfect book to test the water. It contains a great verity of poems. All styles and authors. All lengths and sizes. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing -

This is a book of poems marketed at children, but the selection is suitable for everyone and includes work by Shakespeare, Keats, Blake and Benjamin Zephaniah. I particularly like how the poetry matches with the seasons and days such as All Fools' Day, May Day, as well as Christmas and Easter, and historical anniversaries such as the Battle of Hastings, Rosa Parks and El Alamein. A DNF. I love the idea of a poem-a-day book, but I didn’t feel very uplifted by this selection. I got as far as 15th February and decided to stop. Some of the poems I knew, some I didn’t, but they all felt a bit bleak.Some books become lifelong treasures and A Poem for Every Night of the Year, edited by Allie Esiri, will be one of them. A handsome collection, it contains not just classics by TS Eliot and Eleanor Farjeon but modern poems by Maya Angelou and Tony Mitton. It is the best book of its kind since Charles Causley's, and a must-have for nine-plus readers. -- Amanda Craig, The New Statesman Quite a few of the poems relate to wars and the Christian calendar, and that’s not what I want on a day to day basis (I’d seek those kind of poems out for specific reasons). One was about a dead cat. On 15th February we were given the lyrics to The Beatles’ ��All you need is love’, rather than an actual poem. So this is where I stopped.

For the last year I have been making my way through this lovely big book of poetry. Every night before bed I read a poem. It’s such a great idea. Now, launched in March 2023, we can all recreate that wonderful nostalgia with a new collection of nursery rhymes. A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year has been assembled, curated and beautifully annotated by Allie Esiri.As for the poems themselves, it was a mixed bag (which I had expected from the start). Some I've known for a long time, some I love, others were completely new to me, and some were not really good at all. But that is a matter of taste. I did like how diverse the poems were in any case. LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Most of the poems were not really my piece of cake, but that's what you get with a collection: a variety of poetic doems, themes, and writers. And the good thing is, a collection makes discovering new writers easy. It kind of forced me out of my small bubble and I added some poets on my to-read-more-of list :) I posted updates whenever there was a poem I especially liked. So if you want to have a look you can just scroll down. It should be something between 30 and 40 poems. And I think there was a similar number of poems that I enjoyed reading too. But it didn’t feel right to post such a huge amount of content from the book. So, that’s about 20% that I enjoyed reading. The rest? Well, for some reason or the other I didn’t connect with those poems, and some I thought were simply bad. Those were only a handful, though.