Publisher's Synopsis
All Through the Night is a collection of tender and evocative night poems for all stages of life. Lullabies and other poems relating to children and parenting form the opening section of the book, while subsequent poems celebrate or give voice to various night-time pleasures and anxieties. The elegiac poems towards the end of the collection turn to face the prospect of that last long sleep that awaits us all.
Marie Heaney's selection includes poems by WH Auden, William Blake, Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan, Seamus Heaney, Paula Meehan, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Nì Chuilleanáin, Sylvia Plath, William Wordsworth, WB Yeats and many more.
With illustrations by Paula McGloin, All Through The Night will prepare readers of all ages for the shelter of untroubled sleep.
