Something New
Alternative Poems for Alternative Weddings
$48.01
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2025
Summary
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 reinvigorates the wedding-poem anthology with one hundred fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035069170 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035069172 |
| Author: | Caroline Bird, Rachel Long |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 145mm x 225mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Caroline Bird
Rachel Long is a Costa Prize shortlisted poet and founder of Octavia Poetry Collective for Womxn of Colour, which is housed at Southbank Centre, in London. Rachel’s poetry and prose have been published widely, including in Filigree, Mal and the White Review. She is Assistant Tutor to Jacob Sam-La Rose on the Barbican Young Poets programme, 2015 to the present. Her debut collection of poems is My Darling from the Lions.
Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her 2020 collection, The Air Year, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize and the Costa Prize. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. A two-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, her first collection, Looking Through Letterboxes, was published in 2002 when she was fifteen. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics.
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