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Tell Me the Truth About Life is an indispensable anthology which invites us to relish poetry´s power to capture the truths that really matter.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary, the official national poetry day collection. Tell Me the Truth about Life is an indispensable anthology which invites us all to contemplate the power poetry has to capture our unspoken truths.

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CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY, THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL POETRY DAY COLLECTION. CURATED AND INTRODUCED BY CERYS MATTHEWS.

Tell Me the Truth About Life is an indispensable anthology which celebrates poetry´s power to tap into the truths that matter. Curated and introduced by Cerys Matthews, 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 Britain´s first astronaut, Helen Sharman, to sporting heroes and world-famous musicians, teachers, artists and politicians.

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.

Compiled for National Poetry Day´s twenty-fifth anniversary, Tell Me the Truth About Life is a book that reminds us we are never completely alone in our search to glimpse the truth.

Containing nominations from a number of high-profile poetry lovers and poets, including Michael Morpurgo, Mark Gatiss, Dolly Alderton, and Helen Sharman, among others.

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Matthews, Cerys
Cerys Matthews MBE is a musician, author, broadcaster and founder of The Good Life Experience festival. She is a DJ on BBC World Service, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music where she hosts an award-winning weekly show. Cerys writes and presents documentaries for BBC Radio 4, 3 and 2 as well as BBC Television and she was the founder member of multi-million selling band, Catatonia. She is also the Vice President for Shelter and the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, as well as patron of the Dylan Thomas Society.

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