Poem a Day: Vol. 3 366 poems, old and new...one for each day of the year

by Bowen, Retta; Temple, Nick; Albery, Nicolas; Wienrich, Stephanie

• ISBN13: 9781586420819
• ISBN10: 158642081X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-19
• Publisher: Steerforth

Summary

THE COMPANION volumes to this new collection Poem a Day: Volume 1andPoem a Day: Volume 2 have together sold nearly a hundred thousand copies. They are a word-of-mouth sensation among those who want poetry to be a greater presence in their lives, and perennial gift-giving favorites. Like its predecessors,Poem a Day: Volume 3offers a verse for each day of the year (including February 29) along with brief, often amusing, always interesting anecdotes about the poets and their poems. The originalPoem a Daywas the brainchild of Englishman Nicholas Albery, a colorful and charismatic figure whose interests ranged from social inventions to a greener environment. He had already commenced work on this volume when he died tragically in a car crash. A foundation was created in his memory, and his friends and colleagues at the Nicholas Albery Foundation completed the work.

Author Biography

The Nicolas Albery Foundation is an umbrella charity for a number of innovative projects that aim to improve society with creative solutions to real-world problems. the foundation is named after its visionary founder and chairman of twenty years, Nicolas Albery, who instigated many of the projects and wrote many of the publications that help support the charity, including the original volume of Poem for the Day and its companion book, Seize the Day. he sadly died in 2001, and the foundation is a living memorial to him and his work, aiming to both continue and build upon his legacy.