A review by iamahmedkhalifa
Dancing By The Light of The Moon: Over 250 poems to read, relish and recite by Gyles Brandreth

challenging reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.75

The purpose of the book is to encourage you to memorise some poems to keep your mind sharp. I get the premise of that, but that wasn't my plan. I wanted to get a variety of different poems, across various eras and themes, the old and the new...all in one book. You have to take your time with a book like this, and that's what I purposely did (it took me around 9 months to read it page by page, but it's because I have reread many poems and took my time with it). It will also be a great 'coffee table' book to pick up and pick a random page. For the beginners, many of the poems might be a tad too challenging to understand. But that's part of the beauty...to decipher it.

I may attempt to memorise the poems that I liked...but not the entire book.