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aseel_reads's review
Got to almost the end of July but dear god, I hate everything about this collection. Some of these poems are so ridiculously boring or long, reading this makes me want to self-combust and I don't deserve to live through the rest of these. Glad I didn't buy this, annoyed that someone thought I would like this
bookishjohanna's review
4.0
"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;"
So starts the last poem in "A Poem For Every Day of the Year" edited by Allie Esiri. The poem being "Ring out, wild bells" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
It's been nice having this poetry collection follow me through the year. I started it as a little project a year ago. I have not read every day but I have caught myself up now and then and as the year ends I have finished the book.
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;"
So starts the last poem in "A Poem For Every Day of the Year" edited by Allie Esiri. The poem being "Ring out, wild bells" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
It's been nice having this poetry collection follow me through the year. I started it as a little project a year ago. I have not read every day but I have caught myself up now and then and as the year ends I have finished the book.
tizzytiz's review
4.0
I really enjoyed reading this over the year. I skipped some days or caught up, and some poems were longer than others. But generally enjoyed reading and might consider re reading to catch up on the days I missed before.
chloelovesreading's review
5.0
I really enjoyed reading a poem a day this year. I’d highly recommend this book to anyone, even if poetry isn’t what you usually read, I have no doubt that of the 366 poems in this anthology you are bound to find one you like, and hopefully a few more after that.
sammystarbuck's review against another edition
3.0
So I started off dutifully listening to a poem a day last year, but pretty soon got hopelessly behind. I think the "one a day" format would work much better in print than it does in audio.
As for the poems, it's a mixed bag. I've decided once and for all that I just can't appreciate modern poetry (There's one called "barrier" which is just the word barrier repeated loads of times with the word freedom in there two or three times. it's the equivalent of someone painting a single straight line on a canvas and calling it art. We have one of those in the Leeds art gallery. Literally anyone with access to a tin of paint and some masking tape could do it. and I bet they payed a small fortune for it too. *sigh*).
Also, as much as I appreciate the Beatles, I think there are better things they could have chosen for Valentine's day than the lyrics to "all you need is love".
But there's some good stuff there too, and some very nostalgic ones that take me back to my Childhood ( most notably [a:A.A. Milne|81466|A.A. Milne|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1204664899p2/81466.jpg] and [a:Lewis Carroll|8164|Lewis Carroll|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1571554989p2/8164.jpg] ).
As for the poems, it's a mixed bag. I've decided once and for all that I just can't appreciate modern poetry (There's one called "barrier" which is just the word barrier repeated loads of times with the word freedom in there two or three times. it's the equivalent of someone painting a single straight line on a canvas and calling it art. We have one of those in the Leeds art gallery. Literally anyone with access to a tin of paint and some masking tape could do it. and I bet they payed a small fortune for it too. *sigh*).
Also, as much as I appreciate the Beatles, I think there are better things they could have chosen for Valentine's day than the lyrics to "all you need is love".
But there's some good stuff there too, and some very nostalgic ones that take me back to my Childhood ( most notably [a:A.A. Milne|81466|A.A. Milne|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1204664899p2/81466.jpg] and [a:Lewis Carroll|8164|Lewis Carroll|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1571554989p2/8164.jpg] ).