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Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year
A calming collection of nature poems to help you relax and unwind at the end of every day.
Now more than ever we’re all in need of a daily fix of the natural world, to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life. Keep this beautiful book by your bedside and enjoy a dreamy stroll through nature every evening, just before you go to sleep. All the great, time-honoured poets are here – William Wordsworth, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Robert Bridges – along with some newer and less-well known poetic voices. The poems reflect and celebrate the changing read Emily Brontë on bluebells in spring and Edward Thomas’s evocative ‘Adlestrop’ in summer, then experience golden autumn with Hartley Coleridge and William Blake's 'To Winter'. Beautifully illustrated with scenes from each season, this wonderful book deserves a place on your bedside table for years to come.
Now more than ever we’re all in need of a daily fix of the natural world, to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life. Keep this beautiful book by your bedside and enjoy a dreamy stroll through nature every evening, just before you go to sleep. All the great, time-honoured poets are here – William Wordsworth, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Robert Bridges – along with some newer and less-well known poetic voices. The poems reflect and celebrate the changing read Emily Brontë on bluebells in spring and Edward Thomas’s evocative ‘Adlestrop’ in summer, then experience golden autumn with Hartley Coleridge and William Blake's 'To Winter'. Beautifully illustrated with scenes from each season, this wonderful book deserves a place on your bedside table for years to come.
488 pages, Hardcover
Published September 3, 2020
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October 8, 2021
I already had a recent interest in poetry but Hunter’s selection of poems were a delight. And I can say on completion that I loved this book. I look forward to diving deeper with several of these poets and also checking out the other in the series, A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year.
I started this on my birthday last year.
I started this on my birthday last year.
February 17, 2021
This is an absolutely gorgeous book! I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to add some poetry to their daily lives.
April 22, 2024
This book is beautiful, but I'm not good at reading the same book slowly for an entire year. Finishing a year of poems in April isn't the end of the world, right?
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April 18, 2024while I love having something to slowly read through during the year that fits with the season and exposes me to new poets; this one didn't hit as much as nature poems for every day of the year. it might be that I've now consumed a lot more poetry and that my tastes have evolved beyond this series of collections or that I simply didn't like as many poems in this one as the previous.
I still think this series is a great way to get into poetry, figure out what you like and explore new poets. I still found a few new poets I'm excited about exploring further but this time around all the time spent reading through this wasn't worth it. I would definitely recommend a nature poem for every day of the year instead.
no rating because a collection of poetry is hard to rate as is but especially impossible when it contains 100+ different poets.
ig: @winterrainreads
I still think this series is a great way to get into poetry, figure out what you like and explore new poets. I still found a few new poets I'm excited about exploring further but this time around all the time spent reading through this wasn't worth it. I would definitely recommend a nature poem for every day of the year instead.
no rating because a collection of poetry is hard to rate as is but especially impossible when it contains 100+ different poets.
ig: @winterrainreads
July 14, 2021
This is one for the book case. It looks slick. The typeface? Slick. The print colour? Slick. The illustrations at the beginning of every month? Slick.
The selection is good but probably leaning into the very white side of things and probably very male? IDK I wasn't paying that close of attention. It's Northern hemisphere centric because of course. Which is why I choose to read a month per night in the middle of southern hemisphere winter.
But the aesthetic is on point.
The selection is good but probably leaning into the very white side of things and probably very male? IDK I wasn't paying that close of attention. It's Northern hemisphere centric because of course. Which is why I choose to read a month per night in the middle of southern hemisphere winter.
But the aesthetic is on point.
November 12, 2022
I'm not big on poetry but this is the second collection I've read. I try to read one a year and I've developing an appreciation for certain poets. This book is a great introduction to a variety of poets, all on the theme of nature. (Also, let's be honest -- the cover art was a major selling point!)
December 29, 2023
Generally I love these page a day, for a year, types of books. But...I learned I’m only a fan of sing-songy rhyming poetry. I’m not a fan of non-rhyming poetry. At all. Also not a fan of most poetry written before the 1800s.
So this book was not a huge win for me.
There were several poems I absolutely adored though; such as poems by: Ethelwyn Wetherald, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Crane and George MacDonald. I’ll definitely keep the book just to reread these and others I have marked as enjoyable.
So this book was not a huge win for me.
There were several poems I absolutely adored though; such as poems by: Ethelwyn Wetherald, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Crane and George MacDonald. I’ll definitely keep the book just to reread these and others I have marked as enjoyable.
December 29, 2023
I'd have enjoyed this more if I actually liked the Romantics. My preference is always for subtle, sad twentieth-century writers. So this felt sweet and twee and not much more - the kind of book you'd give your mum for her birthday. The selection didn't particularly try to interrogate the different meanings and weights of nature - it's more face-value: 'here's the natural world, what beauty can we find?'
The downside of arranging them by season is that in cold, dark February you get cold, dark poems, when actually what you want is a riotous promise of what life might be like in August.
The downside of arranging them by season is that in cold, dark February you get cold, dark poems, when actually what you want is a riotous promise of what life might be like in August.
October 18, 2023
There is something magical about opening up a new poetry anthology. If I'm not careful, I'll while away the entire morning with "just one more poem". This one is another audition for 2024's Morning Time Book of the Year, and while I think it's beat out by Sing a Song of Seasons for next year's spot (SaSoS is fully illustrated and the poems are aimed at a younger audience), I absolutely loved the selections and it is definitely making it on the list for a future year. Just flipping through the index of poets is enough to make me smile. Poets like William Allingham, Rupert Brooke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cowper, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George MacDonald, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Percy Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and William Wordsworth are all represented by multiple selections.
December 27, 2022
I was never a fan of poetry growing up, so when I discovered this book of poetry presenting a nature poem for evan excellentght, I thought that this would be a good way to introduce a little poetry into my life. I am very glad I did too. I enjoyed reading this book, as it was not intimidating to me. It introduced me to many poets and poems of various styles - some of which I enjoyed more than others. 3.5 stars
p.s. I think that I will reread this book again next year.
p.s. I think that I will reread this book again next year.
January 3, 2022
Read these to our kids. The last few months of poems were the best, maybe something about fall and the start of winter. Also, seems like there were more poems by women in the last few months than in the months before…
August 4, 2022
Wonderful daily reading of a poem focused on nature. Beautifully book physically.
April 30, 2023
A birthday gift last year and I’ve read them throughout the year
December 5, 2023
Would have liked more poems by women and more modern poetry along with the older ones.
December 20, 2023
This is a wonderful selection of classic poems, many I will turn back to again and again. Some aren't as obviously about '"nighttime" or set at night, but all are beautiful.
December 25, 2023
It was nice to somewhat regularly read poetry. Admittedly, I didn't read a poem a day. I read them in clusters, but it was relaxing nonetheless.
December 31, 2023
Didn’t enjoy as many poems in this collection.
January 1, 2024
Rating: 3.5 stars
January 2, 2024
What a delightful collection of nature poems to read and go to sleep on. I truly enjoyed the variety of poems.
April 7, 2023
Book 99 - paperback - finished: 31st December 2021
A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
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I can’t really say a huge amount about this. I bought this at the end of the year in 2020 as a little treat to myself and it meant that I could read a poem every day! Obviously I didn’t manage to read it every single day, I just caught up whenever I needed to and so when I got back to my house after Christmas, I had about 7 days to catch up on but I really enjoyed it. I love poetry, I find it so pleasant to read and in my English lessons, it’s my favourite thing to teach because I love analysing them.
BUT, I really loved this. I bought another book like this for this year and got another one for my birthday which I’m loving too!
I recommend them as a nice, calm read.
A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I can’t really say a huge amount about this. I bought this at the end of the year in 2020 as a little treat to myself and it meant that I could read a poem every day! Obviously I didn’t manage to read it every single day, I just caught up whenever I needed to and so when I got back to my house after Christmas, I had about 7 days to catch up on but I really enjoyed it. I love poetry, I find it so pleasant to read and in my English lessons, it’s my favourite thing to teach because I love analysing them.
BUT, I really loved this. I bought another book like this for this year and got another one for my birthday which I’m loving too!
I recommend them as a nice, calm read.
January 1, 2021
A charming book of well selected poetry for every day for the year.
January 7, 2024
I genuinely enjoy this book. Keeping it as a table talker or near your front door is a nice touch. Reading a poem a day, whether to kickstart or wrap up your day, would be a sweet idea. 📖🌟
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