We all have days when we find ourselves in need of some positivity. In difficult times, the words of others can lift us up. Bright, joyful art to inspire hopefulness is combined with carefully curated poems, chosen to lift the spirits through the healing power of words. The book is divided into eight sections on the themes of hope, resilience & courage, joy, nature & escape, love, tranquillity, gratitude and comfort.
Featuring a diverse range of writers from Oscar Wilde to Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson to Warsan Shire, the selections are accompanied by explanations and illuminating context that reinforces the positive mental health message. Combining uplifting lines of verse and joyful illustrations, this unique book provides a much-needed dose of hopefulness and happiness in turbulent times, whether as a thoughtful gift for someone in need of solace or a resource that can be turned to whenever we need to.
By:
Julie Sutherland
Illustrated by:
Carolyn Gavin
Imprint: Frances Lincoln Publisher
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 200mm,
Width: 150mm,
ISBN: 9780711266810
ISBN 10: 0711266816
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 28 September 2021
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Hope ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickinson Hope, Emanuel Carnevali I Shall Return, Claude McKay Everyone Sang, Siegfried Sassoon Lift Every Voice and Sing, James Weldon Johnson Ode to the West Wind (stanza 5), Percy Bysshe Shelley Resilience + Courage Still I Rise, Maya Angelou Courage, Anne Sexton Invictus, William Ernest Henley Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear, David Wright Courage, Ella Wheeler Wilcox Don’t Quit, John Greenleaf Whittier Joy How to Triumph Like a Girl, Ada Limón On Joy and Sorrow, from The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran Of Being, Denise Levertov Nurse’s Song, William Blake Afternoon on a Hill, Edna St. Vincent Millay Magdalen Walks, Oscar Wilde Nature + Escape I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth Something Told the Wild Geese, Rachel Field High Flight, John Gillespie Magee Jr. On the Day the World Begins Again, Armand Garnet Ruffo From a Railway Carriage, Robert Louis Stevenson Time, Ursula Bethell Love The Sun Rising, John Donne Invitation to Love, Paul Laurence Dunbar For women who are ‘difficult’ to love, Warsan Shire The Oasis, Naomi Replansky The Light Gatherer, Carol Ann Duffy Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, William Butler Yeats Tranquillity Sonnet: A sea of foliage girds our garden round, Toru Dutt Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood, William Cullen Bryant The Lost Lagoon, E. Pauline Johnson A Hymn to the Moon, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Sweet and Low, from The Princess, Alfred, Lord Tennyson Camomile Tea, Katherine Mansfield Gratitude Sonnet 39: Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes, William Shakespeare The Last Days of Summer Before the First Frost, Tim Bowling Haiku, Issa Thanks, W.S. Merwin Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity, John Tobias Comfort Sorrow Is Not My Name, Ross Gay A December Day, Sara Teasdale The Dream Keeper, Langston Hughes Up-Hill, Christina Rossetti Late Fragment, Raymond Carver In Blackwater Woods, Mary Oliver
Carolyn Gavin is a painter, illustrator and designer based in Toronto, Canada. Vibrant, playful and happy are perfect words to describe her style. She is principal designer for Ecojot, a family-run eco-friendly paper business and also licenses her work for fabric, homewares and packaging. Find her on IG @carolynj (460k followers).Dr Julie Sutherland is a writer and editor based in Ontario, Canada. She is a bibliotherapist for the ReLit Foundation, facilitating and presenting a wide variety of reading for well-being events in Canada, the US, the UK and online. She is passionate about the capacity of literature to effect change in the human spirit.
