Love Poems [Hardcover]

From the anguish of unrequited love through to the love you get from your family and friends, The Bloomsbury Book of Love Poems celebrates the ups and downs of emotional attachment in a superb collection chosen by Benjamin Zephaniah.

With love poems that are tear-jerking, rib-tickling and ultimately some of the most memorable you are ever likely to come across, The Bloomsbury Book of Love Poems features work from poets as diverse as Colin McNaughton, Keats, Brian Patten and Shakespeare and truly offers something for everyone.

An ideal gift for anyone in the first throes of romance, or for those who are licking their lovestruck wounds, this beautiful little book is a treasure. Ages 7 and over. --Susan Harrison

Following Benjamin Zephaniah's debut with Face, his first novel published by Bloomsbury - here is another first - Benjamin Zephaniah's first anthology of poems - truly selected with passion. The Author: Benjamin Zephaniah is probably one of the most high-profile international authors writing today, with an enormous breadth of appeal, equally popular with both adults and children. His first novel, Face, for young adults, is published by Bloomsbury. Most well-known for his performance poetry with a political edge for adults and ground-breaking performance poetry for children, Benjamin also has his own rap/reggae band, and has appeared on Desert Island Discs. He is in constant demand internationally to perform his work: he is (he thinks) Nelson Mandela's favourite poet, and is the only Rastafarian poet to be short-listed for the Chairs of Poetry for both Oxford and Cambridge University. Benjamin lives in East Ham, London. Illustrator: Christopher Corr is a highly successful Fine Art artist, often exhibiting in London. He has been commissioned by the Royal Mail to illustrate their Commemorative Millennium Stamp of Peace.

The Author: Benjamin Zephaniah is probably one of the most high-profile international authors writing today, with an enormous breadth of appeal, equally popular with both adults and children. Most well-known for his performance poetry with a political edge for adults and ground-breaking performance poetry for children, Benjamin also has his own rap/reggae band, and has appeared on Desert Island Discs. He is in constant demand internationally to perform his work: he is (he thinks) Nelson Mandela's favourite poet, and is the only Rastafarian poet to be short-listed for the Chairs of Poetry for both Oxford and Cambridge University. Benjamin lives in East Ham, London.