Stressed, Unstressed : Classic Poems to Ease the Mind

Stressed, Unstressed : Classic Poems to Ease the MindAuthor: Bate, Jonathan Poetry anthologies (various poets) Published on 29 December 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers (William Collins) in the United Kingdom. Paperback softback 224 pages 196 x 132 x 17 160g Can you be re lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry. Intended to help you endure some of your stressful moments and painful experiences, these poems tell us we are not

Author: Bate, Jonathan

Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Published on 29 December 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers (William Collins) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 224 pages
196 x 132 x 17 | 160g

Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry.

Intended to help you endure some of your stressful moments and painful experiences, these poems tell us we are not alone. Returned again and again over the centuries by great imaginations are love and death and memory – remembrance of childhood joy, of happy days and beautiful places, of loved ones we have lost or feeling at peace and at one with the natural world. ‘Stressed Unstressed’ harvests an array of poems on such themes in the hope that they will speak to you when you are processing your worries or when you simply want to fill your mind with different, more positive thoughts.

Words can act as drugs, and on the bedside or in a waiting-room this little volume of poetry can help in all sorts of difficult circumstances. So here is a selection of new poems and old, enduring classics and forgotten gems. Next time you are feeling stressed or anxious, worried or sleepless, panicky or unable to cope, ‘Stressed Unstressed’ invites you to read a poem and join the thousands of others who have read and remembered and loved these poems – to form a very special community. This is bibliotherapy.