A Poem for Every Day of the Year

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A Poem for Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. Stuck with it throughout the book (and year) and can now confidently say that I'm still not a poetry person. 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. Though the "During the First/Second world war" sort of poems got a bit repetitive and the focus on the Christian Holidays possibly a bit isolating.

Reflecting the changing seasons and linking to events on key dates - funny for April Fool's Day, festive for Christmas - these poems are thoughtful, inspiring, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating, and empowering! After not having read any poetry for many years, this book was the perfect way to renew my acquaintance with something I was pretty passionate about in my teenage years. However, one minor point is that there was some overlap with 'A Poem for Every Night of the Year', which I think should've been avoided, considering it's the same editor publishing these anthologies. I’m not really a fan of the format; each piece of information could have been in separate lines or columns.Most poems are under a page, but a few selections are as many as three pages–if a particular poem doesn’t suit classroom purposes, it would be extremely easy to pick a poem from a day that falls on a weekend, or one that comes over a summer/winter break. There were both really well-known poems and poems by newer/lesser known poets, which provided a good mix. We’re currently reading “A poem for every day of the year”, and we’ve enjoyed it so much, have said that we need to find a good next book to keep this habit going. A beautiful collection of poems, a book that you can look back on throughout the year and enjoy in one sitting.

The book is cleanly laid out, with each month prefaced with a drawing, and a ribbon bookmark is attached to the binding for easy marking. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the Track Listing and Acknowledgements can be found on a supplementary PDF which is available to download in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site. For example, sure, we could argue that Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" portion of his speech is poetic, but do you know how many poems have been written about King and his legacy? The Contents of A Poet for Every Day of the Year list the poem and poet for each calendar day although I prefer not to look at that properly until next year when I’ve enjoyed a daily surprise from the book.It took me nearly four years to finish, occasionally reading some poems, but I loved this volume and will be looking for something similar to read in the future. Some of the "poems" would only work if sung, and it was embarrassing to hear the excellent Simon Russell Beale having to emulate non-musical Beatles.