Over the last year or more I’ve made a habit of reading one piece of verse every night. Not from a specific poet, rather a broad selection of poems, speeches, letters and snippets from plays – all contained in A Poem for Every Night of the Year edited by Allie Esiri.
It features works by A A Milne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wordsworth, Keats and Shakespeare – as you might expect, but you’ll also find Christina Rosetti, Spike Milligan, Paul McCartney, Yeats, Plath, Simon Armitage and more.
There’s everything from haiku, to the Gettysburg Address, from Stevie Smith to ‘Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough’ (Betjeman). It’s comforting to read words we loved and those we were forced to love, my Mum’s favourites and those my Grandad stumbled over. There’s also something soporific abut sitting and quietly contemplating the poets words just before you sleep.
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