100 Poets: A Little Anthology ed. By John Carey Ken Bolton never mind the lavender-scented pillow

never mind the lavender-scented pillow

wildly sensual and

What better way to celebrate than with a book of spider-related stories and poems

Peter Redgrove

and considers whether

100 Poets: A Little Anthology ed. By John Carey Ken Bolton never mind the lavender-scented pillowA wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of PoetryA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one hundred greatest poets from across the centuries, and then choose their finest poems.