Poets from across the ages lead us on a journey of love in its many forms. From Shakespeare to Rossetti, Keats to Auden, Byron to Browning and beyond, as well as a host of contemporary voices including Wendy Cope, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy, this new gathering of timeless love poems speaks to the heart about this most universal of themes.

Whether writing of longing or adultery, seduction or simple homely acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy brings to her readers the truth of each experience. Her poetry speaks of tangled, heated passion; of erotic love; fierce and hungry love; unrequited love; and of the end of love.

A celebration of the years Dannie Abse spent with his wife Joan, 'Two for Joy' explores their marriage through all its seasons, and celebrates love in verse which is funny, tender and playful as well as serious and passionate.

Following the success of last year's poll to find the nation's most popular poems, a new poll will be run to find the most popular love poems. Published to coincide with National Poetry Day, this book presents a selection of 100 love poems.

For the many thousands of readers who have been delighted by Laura Barber's earlier anthologies, this book is filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love. For the many thousands of readers who each year go through the complex mix of thrill and trauma that is the planning of a marriage ceremony, Laura Barber's anthology presents an unusual selection of poems suitable for reading out loud...