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With The Picador Book of Love Poems awardwinning poet John Stammers has created a unique collection by pairing some of the finest love poems from centuries past with modern counterparts he presents a book of surprising connections echoes and juxtapositions where classic and contemporary love poems shed new and unexpected light on one another. Here old favourites from Spenser to Tennyson sit side by side with poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Michael Donaghy the distance between the poets closed by their single timeless theme. Whether you’re feeling tempted seduced tormented or rejected or falling in love or out of love – this is the perfect book to inspire console and give a voice to every facet of our deepest and most complex human emotion.