Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Poets' Favourite Poems

This anthology is a jewel. Duffy, an award-winning poet for both children and adults, has invited 29 of the best male and female poets writing today, to select their favourite children’s poem to appear alongside a poem of their own. So here, in a beautifully produced book we have voices from the past and the present mingling and calling to us across decades and generations. Contemporary poets range from Andrew Motion and Kit Wright to Jackie Kay and Sujata Bhatt. The poems they have chosen include old favourites by Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear and Charles Causley mixed with lesser known poems by Miroslav Holub, Edna St Vincent Millay and George Mackay Brown. As Duffy says ‘In their own poems and in the poems they have chosen, they demonstrate that poetry is one place, that we first encounter in childhood, and that its fruits and treasures stay in our minds as readers – and sometimes writers – for a lifetime.’ This anthology is for everyone.