Love

A beautifully produced small hardback of love poems from past and present, covering all aspects of love. Waters has mixed the old and the new to create a hypnotic collection of poems which will make you smile and tug at your heartstrings. New voices to this type of anthology are Michael Ondaatje, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Maura Dooley and Hugo Williams, bringing a younger feel to the usual love poem selection. At a time when we have been remembering Spike Milligan, his poem ‘Love Song’ is particularly moving: ‘If I could write words / Like leaves on an autumn forest floor / What a bonfire my letters would make. / If I could speak words of water / You would drown when I said / “I love you”.’