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. Das Konzept "ein Gedicht pro Tag" für das ganze Jahr finde ich richtig schön und sowohl die generelle Auswahl als auch die Gestaltung dieses Buches (jeder Monat wird von einer Baum-Illustration eingeleitet, die sich den Jahreszeiten entsprechend verändert) ist äußerst gelungen. Mich haben aber hier und da einige Kleinigkeiten gestört: Author Guy Bass introduces SCRAP, about one robot who tried to protect the humans on his planet against an army of robots. Now the humans need his... Allie Esiri has put together a really strong collection. The poems match the time of the year with the themes reflecting the seasons and its associated mood. This is especially so during the December part of the book with many festive pieces being used. She has also used many extracts from larger works to give a taste of longer more developed poetry throughout, which I think is very important because many of the major poetical works in the English language are thousands and thousands of lines long. Short poems are more accessible, but longer ones often carry much more with them. 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

Allie Esiri's delightfully eclectic anthology takes you on a poetic journey through every night of the calendar year. A fun book for all the family to enjoy. Tatler A message from Gaby Morgan, Editorial Director at Pan MacmillanA beautiful collection of 366 poems from familiar favourites to exciting contemporary voices, one to share on every night of the year. All the poems havea link to the date on which they appear, and the collection will take you on a journey through history, the season, and festivals and traditions from many different countries, cultures and religions. 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. I’m now debating if I should keep the book or not. I probably won’t be reading it again. But it looks very nice on the outside. There could have been taken more care of the design on the inside, though. To be honest, it looks a little plain. Well, we’ll see. Maybe it gets turned into a present for someone. A story, if well told, can last a lifetime or longer. Brian Pattern’s poem pays homage to great works of children’s literature that continue to give, and live a life of their own.

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As with every ' a (insert name) a day' book, I started off well. Reading a poem a day and wanting to read more was great, then I kind of forgot about it and left it at my parents which is why I read four months' worth of poems yesterday+today, whoops. Though aimed at children, there is nothing childish about the anthology A Poem for Every Night of the Year, edited by Allie Esiri - a reminder that poetry is for everyone and for every day (or night). It would be easy - but a pity - for adults to miss out. It is a brilliant idea to divide the year up with a poem for every night - it gets round the feeling of defeat that can set in with unwieldy anthologies. A flamboyantly miscellaneous list of authors ranges from Sappho to AA Milne and from Langston Hughes to Charles 1. Adults and children should read in the new year with this book and keep going. -- Kate Kellaway The Observer 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 :)

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. 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.Particular favourites of mine included Love's Philosophy by Percy Shelley, The Buddha by Tony Mitton and the very famous The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. There's also an excellent extract from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which in itself is a play of pure poetry. As such the poems are rich in diversity and carry with them varying degrees of complexity. Although published by Macmillan Children's Books, I think this collection is more suited to an adult reader. There are, certainly, poems in here that a young reader may enjoy, but I think an adult would get more out of poems that deal with larger issues such as love, death and life. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments 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.

Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - I started the year with the best intentions of actually reading a poem every night. Reading poetry is a great habit to expand both the reading and writing mind, and though I do enjoy it, I don’t reach for it nearly often enough. But it didn’t take me long to fall behind, so I fell instead into the habit of reading a few poems at a time, 2 or 3 times a week, whenever it best fit my mood and schedule. By updating my progress on Goodreads at the end of each “chapter” and month, I stayed motivated enough never to fall drastically behind, which is an accomplishment I’m quite proud of. Despite my determination last January, I wasn’t actually sure I’d make it to the December poems within the first year of trying.

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Die Mischung ist unausgeglichen. Manchmal folgen ein paar Tage aufeinander Gedichte der selben Autoren. Ich verstehe die Logik dahinter gleich mehrere Werke einer Person vorstellen zu wollen, aber ich fand das nicht besonders abwechslungsreich. 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. Allie Esiri's delightfully eclectic anthology takes you on a poetic journey through every night of the calendar year. A fun book for all the family to enjoy., Tatler 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.