- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (6 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007127960
- ISBN-13: 978-0007127962
- Product Dimensions: 16 x 14.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 96,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This is a sometimes witty…always thought-provoking guide…a portable gathering of wise advice for every readership." Time Out
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A self-help poetry anthology to smooth out the stresses and woes of adult life…
Is your way of life doing serious damage to your mental health? Are you spending more time in meetings and traffic jams than you are in bed? Does everyone around you appear to be richer, happier and have thinner thighs? Have you started reading the lonely-hearts column for more than a good laugh? Are you spending more on scented candles than on food?
If any of the above sounds familiar then you need ‘101 Poems To Keep You Sane’, a collection of poems to help you weather a whole range of threats to your sanity, from things that merely ruffle the calm surface of life – under headings such as ‘Domestic Goddess of Anxiety’ and ‘Flatpack Frenzy’ (for anyone who has shopped at Ikea) – to the storms and hurricanes of heartbreak and despair in the ‘Getting Over It’ and ‘Emotional Rescue’ sections.
With poetic offerings from writers as diverse as John Dryden to Maya Angelou, this book is essential for anyone who wants to put their life back in perspective.
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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful
Poetry reaches the parts that other reading cannot reach - and this collection will reach even those who don't usually read poetry. Daisy Goodwin has quietly become one of our most interesting, thoughtful and smile-worthy anthologists. After 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life and 101 Poems to Get You Through the Day (and Night) she has put together a third unpretentious, touching collection for stressful occasions. If your computer breaks down, or you have had a long board meeting, or your wife has just left you, or you need an 'Emotional Massage', or you simply want to be somewhere else, this little anthology will make you feel better. These are not the big, long, Victorian odes that you learnt at school, but poems that matter; poems that say what you were already thinking, better than you could say it, like a good song. Goodwin clearly has an eye for the unusual, the striking, and also for the deeply comforting familiar poem. I gave my copy immediately to a friend who needed the Advice for When Your Spirits are Low. Treat yourself, or treat a stressed friend, just for the hell of it. Apparently the next one will be '101 Poems about Men and Women' - can we stand the truth?
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Another set poems designed to make you smile. Though not as many humerous poems as were in '101 poems that could save your life' this is still a nice vaired collection.Covering such topics as relationships, family and work it takes light hearted stabs at the way we look at life. Though most are heartening some such as the 'Office Party' remind us that life is not all full of joy. The poems are easy to like and generally enjoyed by people who are not great fans of poetry.
Don't turn your noses up at Daisy, poetry purists - she curates a mean anthology. Nice layout, fun contents. For anyone who's not too old to have a surprise stocking at Christmas (isn't that most of us?)
To the reviewer Persia I'd only say: perhaps laughter IS the best counter to stress - only when you're stressed (we used to call it 'worried' or 'cross', two quite different things) you CAN'T laugh; this is to buoy you up for next time precisely by gently deflating the stressed 'you'.
[PS a poem can't really save your life (keep you sane, get you through - whatever) but you can.]
To the reviewer Persia I'd only say: perhaps laughter IS the best counter to stress - only when you're stressed (we used to call it 'worried' or 'cross', two quite different things) you CAN'T laugh; this is to buoy you up for next time precisely by gently deflating the stressed 'you'.
[PS a poem can't really save your life (keep you sane, get you through - whatever) but you can.]
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