Poems for Travellers

by Gaby Morgan, Paul Theroux (Introduction)

Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library series, featuring expert introductions for your favourite classics.As internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux writes in his introduction, ‘Here is a collection of travel poetry composed by real travellers, weekending tourists, feverish fantasists, bluffers, dreamers, brave adventurers and resolute stay-at-homes. It succeeds in what poetry does best – inspires and consoles, reminds us of who we are, where we’ve been, and where we might want to go next.’

Genres: Poetry, Classics

242 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 3, 2019

Reviews

[Bumbles · Rating 3 out of 5]

I skipped some of the boring poems but over all a good collection.

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is exactly what it says on the tin- poems for travellers. It is split into several different types of wanderlust and has a lot of poems in all of them. The poets range from those well known to those who are not and there's plenty of poems so everyone who reads it will like some.

I don't think I really have a favourite within this but either a Dickinson one or something like Union Square.

One fault of this book, however, is that it puts poems obviously about travel in but these poems could often just be using that for a metaphor for something else. For example, Up Hill by Christina Rossetti could be argued to be about travel or you could say the meaning is really about the journey from birth to death. A lot of these poems can just be interpreted very differently to being about travel.

[Richard Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

A physically beautiful book with many poems that are loved and familiar and some new ones. I much enjoyed it. My blog on the book:

https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/...