This second edition of our popular Ten Poems About Love mini-anthology calls at every stop on love’s roller-coaster journey – from the first dizzy declarations of passion, to the clear-eyed devotion of a couple in old age.
In one of the most celebrated of modern love poems, we sense the boundless optimism of love at full tilt:
“…you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
 
from ‘I carry your heart with me’ by E. E Cummings.
Along the way there’s also humour and warmth in the form of a battered straw hat that has come to symbolise what it means to be together for the long haul.
These are poems that capture all the light and shade of love; poems to make you think and feel.
The selection is edited and introduced by Lorraine Mariner, a poet and librarian who works at the National Poetry Library in London.
 
Poems by Fleur Adcock, John Ashbery, E.E Cummings, Tishani Doshi, Lorraine Mariner, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Sinéad Morrissey, Peter Sansom, Alfred Lord Tennyson and RS Thomas.
 
Cover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows.
 
A small poetry booklet presented with an eco-friendly envelope, perfect for sending as a thoughtful alternative to a card.
 
Dimensions (cm): 21.0 x 13.7 x 0.3
Weight (kg): .066