The seasons

This
new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running
and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons,
following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the
winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness',
by way of Larkin's 'young-leafed June' and Gerard Manley Hopkins'
'glassy peartree leaves and blooms' when 'Nothing is so beautiful as
Spring'.

As the year changes, so we change with it. Since
time out of mind our daily lives have been shaped and directed by the
seasons, and it is here that we find poems about harvest and hardship,
growth and new life, the warmth of the life-giving sun, Christmas and
the closing of the year. Poetry Please: Seasonal Poems is a vital and generous gathering to treasure.