When Love Speaks

byAdam O'Riordan

Poetry and prose for weddings, relationships and married life.

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'And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with harmony'
Love's Labour's Lost, William Shakespeare

When Love Speaks brings together the greatest writing on love and commitment - from Donne to Cole Porter, Sappho to P.G. Wodehouse, love letters of the great composers to Edwardian marriage advice. These poems and passages capture high romance and everyday happiness, feverish first love and tender union. This joyful anthology provides a range of unique and inspiring readings for a wedding or civil ceremony.

Selected by the poet Adam O'Riordan
O'Riordan's fresh eyes have turned up some beautiful bits of writing
Dazed and Confused

About Adam O'Riordan

Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982, where he currently lives. In 2008 he became the youngest Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection In the Flesh (2010) win a Somerset Maugham Award. He is the Academic Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Details
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN: 9780099541387
  • Length: 288 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 202g
  • Price: £15.99
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