When Love Speaks

　　There are over 200,000 marriages and 7000 civil partnerships per year. This anthology offers over 100 poems and readings which celebrate love and union.

作者簡介

　　Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982 and read English at Oxford University. He studied poetry under Michael Donaghy and Andrew Motion, and was awarded the inaugural Peters, Fraser and Dunlop poetry prize and an Eric Gregory Award. In 2008, he was poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, the youngest poet to hold that post. In the Flesh includes his sequence, 'Home', a series of thematically linked sonnets inspired by Dove House. It was selected by the Poetry Book Society as its pamphlet choice in 2009 and won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. He is Lecturer in Poetry Writing at the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.