Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t

A beautiful little book of short, simple, classic and contemporary poems to dip into, to make life feel better.

From Shakespeare and Shelley to Lemn Sissay and Kate Tempest, poets have always been the best at showing us we're not alone, however sh*t things might seem.

Funny, reflective, romantic and life-affirming — here is an anthology of poems to remind you to keep on looking at the stars: from that first 'what the f*ck' moment to empowering you to do something about this sh*t and ultimately realising that life is still beautiful after all.

Rediscover old favourites and find some new treasures — you might be surprised just how much poetry can help.

• Author
• Philip Larkin, William Shakespeare, Li Ch'ing-Chao, Thomas Hood, Hollie McNish, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Wendy Cope, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lemn Sissay, Matthew Prior, T.S. Eliot, Percy Bysshe Shelley, D.H. Lawrence, W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Anne Brontë, Gil Scott-Heron, Francine Elena, George Arnold, Lord Byron, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Katherine Mansfield, Kae Tempest, Lola Ridge, Margaret Atwood, Kahlil Gibran, Hart Crane, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Ivor Gurney, Nikita Gill, William Blake, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Maya Angelou, E. Nesbit, Robert Browning, Clere Parsons, Portia Nelson, Julia Carney, Susan Coolidge, Edward Thomas, Frederico García Lorca, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold, Kim Addonizio, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear, Tracy K. Smith, John Dryden

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 143

• Publisher
• Quercus

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781787471030

• Genres
• poetry, anthologies

• Release date
• 2018