Ben Holden

Grown men aren't supposed to cry - in public, anyway. In this unique anthology, however, a host of men eminent in their fields - be it literature or film, science or architecture, theatre or human rights - confess to breaking down at poems which haunt them for many reasons.

The editors of this book asked 100 remarkable women to choose poems that have moved them to tears. The poems range from Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave to Michelle Williams, Carol Ann Duffy to Joyce Carol Oates, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Chelsea Manning, this collection delivers...