Cerys Matthews 
Tell Me the Truth About Life [EPUB ebook] 
A National Poetry Day Anthology

<p><b>CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY, THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL POETRY DAY COLLECTION. CURATED AND INTRODUCED BY CERYS MATTHEWS.</b><br><br><i><b>Tell Me the Truth About Life </b>i</i>s an indispensable anthology which celebrates poetrys power to tap into the truths that matter.<b> Curated and introduced by Cerys Matthews</b>, this collection draws on the wisdom of crowds: featuring poems nominated for their insight into truth by a range of ordinary and extraordinary people: from Britains first astronaut, Helen Sharman, to sporting heroes and world-famous musicians, teachers, artists and politicians.<br><br>Their choices include contemporary work by Yrsa Daley-Ward, John Cooper Clarke and Kei Miller alongside classics by W H Auden, Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas. Here you will find poems to revive the spirit, ballads to mobilize and life-lines to hold you safe in the dark.<br><br>Compiled for National Poetry Days twenty-fifth anniversary, <i>Tell Me the Truth About Life</i> is a book that reminds us we are never completely alone in our search to glimpse the truth.<br><br>Containing nominations from a number of high-profile poetry lovers and poets, including <b>Michael Morpurgo</b>, <b> Mark Gatiss</b>, <b>Dolly Alderton, </b> and <b>Helen Sharman</b>, among others.</p>