When Love Speaks: Poetry And Prose For Weddings, Relationships And Married Life.

Description

'And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with harmony' "Love's Labour's Lost," William Shakespeare. "When Love Speaks" brings together the greatest writing on love and commitment - from Donne to Cole Porter, Sappho to P.G. Wodehouse, love letters of the great composers to Edwardian marriage advice. These poems and passages capture high romance and everyday happiness, feverish first love and tender union. This joyful anthology provides a range of unique and inspiring readings for a wedding or civil ceremony. Selected by the poet Adam O'Riordan.

Promotion info

There are over 200,000 marriages and 7000 civil partnerships per year. This anthology offers over 100 poems and readings which celebrate love and union.

Author description

Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982 and read English at Oxford University. He studied poetry under Michael Donaghy and Andrew Motion, and was awarded the inaugural Peters, Fraser and Dunlop poetry prize and an Eric Gregory Award. In 2008, he was poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, the youngest poet to hold that post. In the Flesh includes his sequence, 'Home', a series of thematically linked sonnets inspired by Dove House, and selected by the Poetry Book Society as its pamphlet choice in 2009.