Bright Poems For Dark Days An Anthology For Hope

Binding: Hardcover
Description: This beautiful book presents poems for hopefulness and happiness with bright uplifting illustrations from rising star Carolyn Gavin. This book of joyous and uplifting verse is a welcome beacon of hope and happiness in difficult and challenging times collected together with beautiful illustrations and context for each poem. We all have days when we find ourselves in need of some positivity. In difficult times the words of others can lift us up. Bright joyful art to inspire hopefulness is combined with carefully curated poems chosen to lift the spirits through the healing power of words. The book is divided into eight sections on the themes of hope resilience & courage joy nature & escape love tranquillity gratitude and comfort. Featuring a diverse range of writers from Oscar Wilde to Emily Dickinson Robert Louis Stevenson to Maya Angelou William Blake to Warsan Shire the selections are accompanied by explanations and illuminating context that reinforce the positive mental health message. Combining uplifting lines of verse and joyful illustrations this unique book provides a much - needed dose of hopefulness and happiness in turbulent times whether as a thoughtful gift for someone in need of solace or a resource that can be turned to whenever we need to. Featuring: Carol Ann Duffy Percy Bysshe Shelley Maya Angelou Emily Dickinson Kahlil Gibran Claude Mc Kay Langston Hughes William Wordsworth Emanuel Carnevali James Weldon Johnson Anne Sexton William Ernest Henley Siegfried Sassoon David Wright Ella Wheeler Wilcox John Greenleaf Whittier Ada Lim n Denise Levertov William Blake Edna St. Vincent Millay Oscar Wilde Rachel Field John Gillespie Magee Jr. Armand Garnet Ruffo Robert Louis Stevenson Ursula Bethell John Donne Paul Laurence Dunbar Warsan Shire Naomi Replansky William Butler Yeats Toru Dutt William Cullen Bryant E. Pauline Johnson Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Alfred Lord Tennyson Raymond Carver Katherine Mansfield Issa W. S. Merwin John Tobias Ross Gay Sara Teasdale Elizabeth Barrett Browning William Shakespeare Tim Bowling Mary Oliver Christina Rossetti
Title: Bright Poems For Dark Days An Anthology For Hope
Author(s): Sutherland Julie, Carolyn Gavin
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9780711266810
Pages: 128 Pages, 30 Colour Illustrations
Publication Date: 12/21/2021
Category: Gift Books