Please. I like books of varied, short-ish poems.

13th Century Persian Poet called Rumi

very nice

Good and varied this one, contains most of the obvious pomes that the title would suggest and plenty more that were new to me.

Thanks

Crow, Ted Hughes.

Simon Armitage..anything at all by him, utterly brilliant, he’s got a book out called “selected poems” it’s an anthology of his stuff to date.
Highly recommended..

My sister gave me a book of Benjamin Zephania’s poems for Christmas..

I should definitely have a look at it..

BTW I’m a H U G E poetry fan.

Try and get a second-hand copy of The Norton Anthology of Poetry, that’ll sort you out.

As a bonus you can use it for bludgeoning intruders to death, it easily weighs as much as a set of Bombers…

these are short and varied

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/the-funniest-football-chants-1774361.html?action=gallery&ino=8

two anthologies i’d thoroughly recommend are either the ecco anthology of international poetry or new european poets. both are fabulous but if i had to choose one it’d be the ecco.

single volumes i’ve read recently would either be alice oswald’s memorial (if that’s up your street see also christopher logue’s war music) ot new and selected or parbale island by the criminally under-rated pauline stainer.

failing that anything by me