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A review by sammystarbuck
A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
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] ).