Everyone Sang: A Poem for Every Feeling

Edited by William Sieghart

Illustrated by Emily Sutton

A magnificent anthology of poems themed around different moods, collected by the bestselling creator of The Poetry Pharmacy and illustrated by Emily Sutton.This exquisite gift-book contains over a hundred...

176 Pages, 270.00 x 295.00 x 23.00 mm

£20.00

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A magnificent anthology of poems themed around different moods, collected by the bestselling creator of The Poetry Pharmacy and illustrated by Emily Sutton.

This exquisite gift-book contains over a hundred poems, chosen by creator of the bestselling The Poetry Pharmacy, William Sieghart, and illustrated in sensational style by picture-book star Emily Sutton. Divided into four thoughtfully-curated sections, including Poems to Make You Smile, Poems to Move You, Poems to Give You Hope and Poems to Calm and Connect You, the poems originate from an extraordinary and diverse range of sources, from Maya Angelou to Roger McGough, Lemn Sissay, Jackie Kay, Carol Ann Duffy, Joseph Coelho, Kae Tempest, W.B. Yeats, Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson, among many others. Combining traditional favourites with recent gems, here are poems to delight, inspire, entertain, intrigue, console and uplift readers of all ages.

ISBN: 9781406393613
Age range: from 7 to 12
Length: 176 pages
Price: £20.00

Publication date: 7 October 2021
Imprint: Walker Books
Dimensions: 270.00 x 295.00 x 23.00 mm
Weight: 1350.00gr

William Sieghart established the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 1992, and founded National Poetry Day in 1994. He is a former chairman of the Arts Council Lottery Panel, and current chairman of both the Somerset House Trust and Forward Thinking, a charity seeking peace in the Middle East and acceptance of British Muslims. Alongside the Poetry Pharmacy series, his anthologies include Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life and 100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five Years of the Forward Books.

Emily Sutton graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a degree in illustration; as well as illustrating picture books, she paints, sculpts and designs prints. Emily's previous titles for Walker include Tiny, Lots, Grow, The Christmas Eve Tree, the highly acclaimed A First Book of the Sea and her author-illustrator debut Penny and the Little Lost Dog. Visit her at her website: emillustrates.com.

complimented by exquisite art from Sutton ~The Bookseller

This is an anthology that will appeal to every generation with plenty of remedies should tempers flare on Christmas Day. ~The Daily Telegraph

With a brilliant selection of short poems on every possible feeling, there is something here for every reader, young and old. ~The Irish Independent

With contributions from poets such as Wordsworth, T. S. Eliot and Thomas Hardy, as well as contemporary voices, including Lemn Sissay and Kae Tempest, this comprehensive volume offers poems to Inspire, Move, Calm, Connect You and Make You Smile. And they will. ~The Daily Mail

This is a large, beautiful hardback that can be enjoyed by everyone in the family […] Emily Sutton’s illustrations are absolutely gorgeous, I Love the colours she uses and how she interprets each poem. The combination of words and pictures creates a wonderful book to explore and treasure.
~Juno