Presented within this beautifully produced book which includes a ribbon marker as a helpful tool for encouraging dipping in and out, this is an empowering collection of poems by women and girls including already well-established poets such as Christina Rossetti, Maya Angelou and Wendy Cope as well contemporary and young writers including Amineh Abou Kerech and Amanda Gorman, the young American poet who held the world spell-bound with her poem The Hill We Climb at the inauguration of President Biden in 2021.
Covering a range of emotions and capturing a number of important ‘life’ moments, each of the poems in this collection will make as a strong an impact on readers of all ages. Ella Risbridger’s collection of old and new poems has been carefully chosen to grow a love of poetry in all reader’s hearts while Anna Shepta’s illustrations capture the mood of each perfectly.
A forceful, passionate and uplifting collection of poems by women and girls that is guaranteed to inspire, delight and empower.
From well-loved poets, including Maya Angelou, Wendy Cope, Lucille Clifton and Christina Rossetti, to newer voices such as Amanda Gorman, Yrsa Daley-Ward and Ada Limon, this outstanding collection from talented anthologist Ella Risbridger has poems for every mood and every moment. Ella's selection is wide-ranging but accessible and will appeal to poetry lovers both young and old alike.
With sumptuous finishes including cloth binding, full colour illustrations throughout, textured paper jacket, ribbon marker, and head and tail bands. This is the perfect gift to begin a lifelong love of poetry.
What Ella Risbridger had to say:“I hope the poems in this book light your way to all sorts of things. Think of these poems not like still pictures, but more like doors: things you can push on, and that will open on to other things.”
'A beautiful book, chock-full of treasures. It should be on every bookshelf!' - Jacqueline Wilson
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About Ella Risbridger
Ella Risbridger is a writer from London. Her debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), was published by Bloomsbury in January 2019 and won praise from Nigella Lawson, Nigel Slater and Diana Henry. It was named a Book Of The Year 2019 by half a dozen publications, including The Times, The Daily Mail, and The Observer.
Ella is also the editor of the anthology Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling, published by Transworld in November 2019. She’s written for The Guardian, The Observer, Prospect, Grazia, and some other places too. For three years she had a column at The Pool and a beauty column in The i. The Secret Detectives was her debut children’s book.
The Editor at Nosy Crow says: “Poetry always needs champions and Ella Risbridger is a modern-day Boudicca. I defy anyone to read this poetry collection without feeling lighter, brighter and all fired up to conquer the world. Ella’s skilful selection includes poems to make you think, poems to make you hope and poems that might just make you act, too. Buy this for yourself, your daughter, your sister, your best friend, your niece – buy it for everyone and watch them rise.”
