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101 Poems to Keep You Sane: Emergency Rations for the Seriously Stressed (Hardcover)

by Daisy Goodwin (Editor)

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Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (1 Oct 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0007127960
ISBN-13: 978-0007127962
Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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The poems in this collection include both classics and works by contemporary poets. With linking narratives that are upbeat, tongue-in-cheek, witty, and serious by turns, Daisy Goodwin guides the reader through the seminal points of becoming a fully-formed adult.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It works!, 17 Oct 2001

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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?

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4.0 out of 5 stars A light hearted poetry book on life., 22 Jan 2002

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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.

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1.0 out of 5 stars 101 poems to make you wonder why she bothered, 29 Jun 2009

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I was really disappointed with this selection of poems. I read it from cover to cover, over the last month and wondered when I'd get to the interesting poems or poems that remotely related to the title of the book.
The book is entitled "101 Poems to Keep You Sane: Emergency Rations For the Seriously Stressed". What I got was a hotpotch of poems that did not interest, inspire or uplift me in the slightest. In fact the reader is advised to only read some poems in an emergency, as they may lose their punch if you read them all the time. These "emergency" poems are contained within the Emergency Rescue section of the book and contain only 3 poems, which were really disappointing considering they are the only poems that relate to the title of the book. It appears that this anthology of poems was put together because Daisy Goodwin was given a collection of poems and was told to organise them and put some words around them to make them hang together. She tried but failed to do justice to any of these poems. I may have enjoyed the poems had they not been hyped up so much by Daisy's introductory text and had not been grouped together in such an arbitary manner.
There is a particularly annoying section at the end, which is entitled "What Are You Waiting For?" and begins, "The words here may share a sombre base line, but they each offer a reminder that time is running out." I don't think this is what aSeriously Stressed person needs to know. It's like the poems came first, Daisy's text next and then the title. Surely this is not the right way around when creating an anthology that attempts to solve a problem in its title. At some point the author should ask, is this what I'd want if I was Seriously Stressed. My answer would be a resounding No, it it too light-hearted, flippant and confusingly constructed for that. Perhaps a better title would be, "101 Poems To Keep You Smiling: When You Start Sweating The Small Stuff".

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