Bright poems for dark days - Julie Sutherland

This beautiful book presents poems for hopefulness and happiness, with bright, uplifting illustrations from rising starCarolyn Gavin.

This book of joyous and uplifting verse is a welcome beacon of hope and happiness in difficult and challenging times, collected together with beautiful illustrations and context for each poem.

We all have days when we find ourselves in need of some positivity. In difficult times, the words of others can lift us up. Bright, joyful art to inspire hopefulness is combined with carefully curated poems, chosen to lift the spirits through the healing power of words.

The book is divided into eight sections on the themes of hope, resilience & courage, joy, nature & escape, love, tranquillity, gratitude and comfort. Featuring a diverse range of writers from Oscar Wilde to Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis StevensontoMaya Angelou,William Blake toWarsan Shire, the selections are accompanied by explanations and illuminating context that reinforcethe positive mental health message.

Combining uplifting lines of verse and joyful illustrations, this unique book provides a much-needed dose of hopefulness and happiness in turbulent times, whether as a thoughtful gift for someone in need of solace or a resource that can be turned to whenever we need to.

Featuring: Carol Ann Duffy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Maya Angelou
Emily Dickinson
Kahlil Gibran
Claude McKay
Langston Hughes
William Wordsworth
Emanuel Carnevali
James Weldon Johnson
Anne Sexton
William Ernest Henley
Siegfried Sassoon
David Wright
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
John Greenleaf Whittier
Ada Limn
Denise Levertov
William Blake
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Oscar Wilde
Rachel Field
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
Armand Garnet Ruffo
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ursula Bethell
John Donne
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Warsan Shire
Naomi Replansky
William Butler Yeats
Toru Dutt
William Cullen Bryant
E. Pauline Johnson
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Raymond Carver
Katherine Mansfield
Issa
W.S. Merwin
John Tobias
Ross Gay
Sara Teasdale
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
William Shakespeare
Tim Bowling
Mary Oliver
Christina Rossetti