Griff Rhys Jones
Birth date: November 16, 1953
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I picked this one up off the back of having watched the ITV series it accompanies. If I tell you the show was broadcast in the half hour slot between Coronation Streets during which most people are watching Eastenders, you may appreciate what you are going to get here. The "challenge" of the TV se...
Unless people stopped reading poetry after 1970, this is an odd collection of poetry - most of it was written in the first half of the 20th century. Also, a large part of the selection is nature based poetry, which is fine if that is what you are looking for. My personal taste in poetry is more g...
A vintage resident of my parents' bookcase. We love to read poetry aloud to each other and we know where all the good ones are in this book. Popular definitely =/= good, but there is certainly some overlap and some of our own favourites can be found among the... others (I was going to say Auden, but...
How can one rate an anthology of poems chosen by collective voting, really? It seems well-intentioned, the preface thankfully includes an excellent modern poem which didn't make the list, and the editor's synopsis is (thankfully?) short of analysis. My edition is simply hard to read based on the boo...
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