Tell Me the Truth About Life

A National Poetry Day Anthology

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 12/09/2019

ISBN: 9781789290998

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Language

Binding: Hardback

Size: 198 x 129 mm

Extent: 192 pages

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

Edition Status: Out of Print

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Summary:

CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY, THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL POETRY DAY COLLECTION. CURATED AND INTRODUCED BY CERYS MATTHEWS.

Tell Me the Truth About Life is an indispensable anthology which celebrates poetry’s power to tap into the truths that matter. Curated and introduced by Cerys Matthews, this collection draws on the wisdom of crowds: featuring poems nominated for their insight into truth by a range of ordinary and extraordinary people: from Britain’s first astronaut, Helen Sharman, to sporting heroes and world-famous musicians, teachers, artists and politicians.

Their choices include contemporary work by Yrsa Daley-Ward, John Cooper Clarke and Kei Miller alongside classics by W H Auden, Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas. Here you will find poems to revive the spirit, ballads to mobilize and life-lines to hold you safe in the dark.

Compiled for National Poetry Day’s twenty-fifth anniversary, Tell Me the Truth About Life is a book that reminds us we are never completely alone in our search to glimpse the truth.

Containing nominations from a number of high-profile poetry lovers and poets, including Michael Morpurgo, Mark Gatiss, Dolly Alderton, and Helen Sharman, among others.

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All will love Tell Me The Truth About Life... it's impossible to open the collection without pulling out a plum

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National Poetry Day (3rd October) is a nationwide event which draws in notable authors and celebrities in their droves, from Benjamin Zephaniah, Sue Perkins, Joanna Lumley, JK Rowling to Stephen Fry, David Walliams and Carol Ann Duffy
2019 is the 25th anniversary of NPD and there will be a huge rostrum of events on the day, and media throughout; our book will be included in the official plans and celebrations
There was a call-out to the public in Autumn 2018 for ‘a poem that captures a "truth that matters". The result was hundreds of poems being submitted, which Cerys has curated and introduced. This is the basis for our book.
Including high-profile nominations from artists, writers, authors, entrepreneurs, astronauts and innovators