Poetry by Heart: Poems for Learning and Reciting
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Poetry by Heart: A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud

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Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by Heart is an essential collection of over 200 poems, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, from Christina Rossetti to Benjamin Zephaniah, all carefully chosen for their suitability for learning and reciting. This is an anthology which celebrates the age-old pleasure of reciting poems – an anthology for all ages to treasure.

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Weight 0.399 kg
Dimensions 3.5 × 13 × 19.7 cm
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Pages

576
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Year Published

2016-11-3
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0241275970
About The Author

Sir Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 till 2009, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, London. Jean Sprackland's Tilt won the Costa Poetry award in 2008. She is a Reader in Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Julie Blake is the Director of the national poetry recitation competition Poetry By Heart which she co-founded with Sir Andrew Motion in 2012. Mike Dixon is an educational consultant specializing in English in the classroom.

The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts – there for the taking

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