Something New
alternative poems for alternative weddings
$45.81
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2025
Summary
Something New: Fresh Poems for Modern Weddings
At Nigerian weddings, attendees ‘spray’ the dancing newlyweds with bank notes, money to be put towards their new life together. The breaking of the glass is a famous Jewish wedding tradition, and of course everyone knows about things old, borrowed and blue. The list of nuptial traditions is endless. Yet when it comes to finding the right poem for your celebration, too often the same old options appear. Something New reinvigorat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035069170 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035069172 |
| Author: | Caroline Bird, Rachel Long |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm |
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About The Author
Caroline Bird
Caroline Bird’s selected poems, Rookie (2022), draws on two decades of work from one of the UK’s most popular poets. She won the Forward Prize for her collection The Air Year (2020), and has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Polari Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2023.
Rachel Long is a writer and founder of the Octavia Poetry Collective for Women of Colour at the Southbank Centre in London. Her debut poetry collection, My Darling from the Lions, was published by Picador in 2020 and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Costa Book Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
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