OccasionsQuirky
Ten Bedtime PoemsVolume One
ISBN 978 1 907598 18 0
Published August 2013
20 printed pages
Selected and Introduced by William Boyd
Various Authors
£5.95
Why should children have all the fun? Reading poems in bed – to oneself, to each other – is surely one of life’s great pleasures. Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume One), selected by novelist William Boyd, belongs on your bedside table. As he writes in the Introduction, ‘novelists – serious novelists, that is, literary novelists – read a lot of poetry’ and his chosen poems make profoundly beautiful bedtime reading.
William Boyd is the author of three collections of short stories and twelve novels, the most recent of which are Waiting for Sunrise and Solo, the latest James Bond novel.
“Like dreams, poems hold such latent potential to disarm, alarm, delight and to view our world through other eyes. So instead of your usual nightcap, William Boyd offers you the chance to take a different poet to bed with you each night! Let their words become your dreams.”
Tamsin Greig
Poems by WH Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, TS Eliot, Christopher Reid, Medbh McGuckian, Derek Mahon, Wallace Stevens, Jamie McKendrick and Craig Raine.
Illustrated by Judy Stevens.
