101 Poems That Could Save Your Life - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002570726 ISBN 13: 9780002570725

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2003

Synopsis

Poetry for the Bridget Jones generation – an antidote to the stresses of modern life.

Prozac has side effects, drink gives you hangovers, therapy's too expensive; for a quick and effective relief for all your emotional ailments try a poem – for however bad it is some poet will have been there too.

This is the first poetry anthology designed for the self-help generation. Look up your problem in the emotional index which has entries ranging from 'Bad Hair Days' to 'Is this Relationship Going Anywhere?', 'First Wrinkle' to 'Bereavement'. 'Career Crisis' to 'Redundancy' and a whole section of 'Instant Moral Fibre'. The prescribed poems include classics by Emily Dickinson and Lord Byron and previously unpublished works by contemporary poets like Wendy Cope. The book has a cure or at least a consolation for every modern misery, and no side effects.

About this title

Review:

"This is a sometimes witty...always thought-provoking guide...a portable gathering of wise advice for every readership." Time Out

From the Author:

Lifesaving poems wanted
I would love to hear from anybody who has found a poem that has changed the course of his/her life to be included in a later edition. All contributions will be credited.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0002570726
• ISBN 13: 9780002570725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Goodwin Daisy