- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (6 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002570726
- ISBN-13: 978-0002570725
- Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 14.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 115,726 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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Poetry for the Bridget Jones generation – an antidote to the stresses of modern life.
Prozac has side effects, drink gives you hangovers, therapy's too expensive; for a quick and effective relief for all your emotional ailments try a poem – for however bad it is some poet will have been there too.
This is the first poetry anthology designed for the self-help generation. Look up your problem in the emotional index which has entries ranging from 'Bad Hair Days' to 'Is this Relationship Going Anywhere?', 'First Wrinkle' to 'Bereavement'. 'Career Crisis' to 'Redundancy' and a whole section of 'Instant Moral Fibre'. The prescribed poems include classics by Emily Dickinson and Lord Byron and previously unpublished works by contemporary poets like Wendy Cope. The book has a cure or at least a consolation for every modern misery, and no side effects.
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If this were an album it would be called 'Anthems'. This is comfort poetry. The contents page lists poems by type of crisis. Is it a case of 'Bad hair day', 'First Date', 'First Wrinkle' or even 'Rock Bottom'? There are poems to make you laugh out loud, poems to put your crisis into context, and above all poems to show you that you are not the first person to feel this way. The ubiquitous and wonderful Wendy Cope appears, alongside older voices and a few surprising new ones. But as advice goes, you probably can't beat Mandy Coe's poem 'Go to Bed With a Cheese and Pickle Sandwich' which I have always found to be very sound advice. It begins 'Go to bed with a cheese and pickle sandwich - it is life enhancing'. So is this book.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What more could you ask, A selection of poems - both familiar and unfamiliar - on a wide range of topics from bad hair days to instant moral fibre via divorce, moving house and birthday blues. My personal favourite is Glynn Maxwell - Deep Sorriness Atonement song which will save me having to ever work out how to say sorry again. there are serious poems here aswell on serious topics so it makes a well balanced kit to help with just about anything!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What a marvellous and wonderful little book! Daisy Goodwin has produced a great book of poetry with poems on every topic imaginable. Whenever you're moody, depressed, irritable and your spirits need to be raised just read a poem from Ms Goodwin's book and you'll be happy and amazed.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A wonderful collection
Daisy Goodwin has grouped favourites into themes that speak to all of us because they are part of the fabric of life: new beginnings, overwhelming excitement, gradual realisations... Read more
Published on 4 Sep 2008 by Mademoiselle
Wow !
This anthology of both modern day and classical poems is a true survival guide for us all in the 21st century. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2007 by poetrygirl
the cure to pmt and all the other crap things in life...
when all is crud in life, reach for the book. a new take on life saving techniques.
Published on 20 April 2001 by myrtle@boyo.co.uk
I need two copies
This book is so good that I am going to have to buy another copy. I was given a copy for Christmas but the dilema over whether to leave it at home or bring it to work is too... Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2001
Just perfect
This was one of my best ever Christmas presents - so many of the poems are just perfect and are exactly how we have all felt. Buy it for your best friends - I am going to.
Published on 27 Mar 2000
101 poems is a compact self help guide to surviving life.
With 101 Poems now by my bedside table, I feel that i can conquer any problem that may arise in my life!! Read more
Published on 22 Oct 1999
A perfect Christmas present
This is a great anthology with a range of poems to meet all your moods and take you through all your troubles. Read more
Published on 20 Oct 1999
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