SEASONS (POETRY PLEASE)

Even though most of us are urban dwellers, our daily lives are still shaped and directed by the seasons. In this new anthology from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, you will find poems about harvest and hardship, growth and new life, the warmth of the life-giving sun, Christmas and the closing of the year. Includes John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun', Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'glassy peartree leaves and blooms', and many more.