Poetry Please: The Seasons

Poetry Please: The Seasons is a thoughtfully curated anthology featuring favourite poems from the UK's longest-running and most beloved poetry request programme. The collection traces the passage of the year through evocative verses, from John Clare's reflections on the "pale splendour of the winter sun" to John Keats' celebration of the "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," including Philip Larkin's depiction of "young-leafed June" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' praise for spring's "glassy peartree leaves and blooms." The anthology explores the intimate connection between the changing seasons and the rhythms of human life, encompassing themes of harvest, hardship, renewal, sunlight, Christmas, and year's end. This vital and generous selection invites readers to treasure the enduring power of seasonal poetry.
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