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If: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility


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No. of pages 288

Published: 2016

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In this magical collection of our best-loved poems, discover the joy, solace and beauty of poetry with your family. Whether you're after a poem that is charming, funny, sad, silly, magical, sleepy, long or short, there's something in here for everyone. From Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat to Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade to Eliot's Macavity the Mystery Cat, these are poems to carry with you all your life.

 

 

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by Canongate Books Ltd .

Rachel Kelly was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and then at Oxford University, where she read Modern History. She is also the author of Black Rainbow: How Words Healed Me - My Journey Through Depression, for which she created the Black Rainbow app and which won the Spear's Best First Book Award, and Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness. Rachel also runs poetry workshops for mental-health charities and in prisons. She is married with five children and has always loved poetry. www. rachel-kelly. net Allie Esiri read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University. She is also the editor of A Poem for Every Night of The Year and The Love Book, and she created The Love Book poetry app, which features acclaimed actors reading poems. Allie Esiri , described in a Tatler profile as 'a poetry powerhouse', is a former English stage, film and television actress, now a writer. Her iF Poems app was launched to great acclaim in November 2011 and was the Apple Editors' Choice All Time Favourite app. iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility was published in 2012 and The Love Book in 2014.

 

The thing I really like about it is that I really like everything about it. An absolutely brilliant collection. I'm continually telling people to have some poetry in their lives, iF has made it a little easier for them -- BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH A book full of old friends and some new surprises -- QUENTIN BLAKE It's like chocolate for the soul -- HELENA BONHAM CARTER The iF anthology of poems is both beautiful and useful. What more could anyone want? -- Erica Wagner * The Times * A beautiful book ... It addresses a gamut of universal subjects that we all grapple with at one point or another in our lives * Red * A magical collection of old and new poems with something for everyone * Teacher Magazine * A poetry primer for kids that adults can enjoy too * Goop * Whether you're after a poem that is charming, sad, silly, sleepy, magical, long or short, there's something here for everyone * Irish Daily Mail * Beautifully illustrated ... it's properly cool * Tatler * A Rare Treat * Pavlova Diaries.co.uk * A beautifully illustrated anthology for children of all ages * Absolutely Notting Hill *