In this day-by-day anthology, the 366 of poems and poetic fragments collected in The Poet's Daybook are linked to the day in question in an imaginative variety of ways: by season, by the poet's birth or death date, by the anniversary of an event commemorated in the poem, or by other, more playful, means, including Ian McMillan's own life.
The most celebrated poets in the English language are all represented here - from Arnold to Auden, Keats to Kipling, Owen to Eliot, and Whitman to Walcott. A sprinkling of classical and modern European poets completes a world-class line-up. Ted Hughes' 'Wind', Dylan Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night', William Wordsworth's 'Daffodils', William Carlos Williams's 'The Red Wheelbarrow', and Dickinson's 'A train went through a burial-gate' are just a handful of the much-loved poems on display, alongside fascinating commentary from the author.
Juxtaposing the ancient and the modern, the conservative and the radical, the free-form and the structured, the elegiac and the celebratory, The Poet's Daybook breaks free of the shackles of the traditional anthology to create a collection that is, by turns, surprising, comforting, challenging, moving and funny, but always eclectic, stimulating, instructive and wise.
- ISBN10 1848878265
- ISBN13 9781848878266
- Publish Date 1 November 2012 (first published 1 November 2011)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Atlantic Books
- Edition Main
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English