A Poet for Every Day of the Year ed. By Allie Esiri Half the Human Race They are open

They are open

a paean “to our white husbands”

and alcoholism -- and open spaces in which to share in emotional and quasi-spiritual transcendence

but I am about/ to bend

Most famous are the sequence of fragments in which the fox recounts his revenge upon the eagle (widely regarded as code for Lycambes) who has betrayed their friendship by eating the vixen’s cubs

A Poet for Every Day of the Year ed. By Allie Esiri Half the Human Race They are openAllie Esiri's beautiful gift anthology, A Poet for Every Day of the Year, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world's greatest ever verse writers. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new discoveries. Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti and Emily Bronte sit alongside Roger McGough, Wendy Cope, Imtiaz Dharker, Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath and