Read Me 2: A Poem for Every Day of the Year

Following on from last year's National Year of Reading's poetry anthology, this extremely reasonably priced paperback ($4.99) begins in January and sustains the high quality selection and positioning of poems to be found in Read Me. As well as the more traditional poems, contemporary poets are well represented with some as yet unanthologised gems by Philip Gross, Jackie Kay and Carol Ann Duffy, Adults and children are bound to find a poem which fits the way they feel on a particular day or be surprised by a thought on another day. There's a great 'millennium' type poem by Ogden Nash as the last poem in the book 'Good Riddance But Now What?'; 'Hark! It's midnight, children dear, Duck! Here comes another year.' My thoughts entirely...