Poetic Trios

Three poems by each of ten extraordinary voices, gathered into one collection that spans eight centuries of English verse. Here Dante meets Lewis Carroll, John Milton shares pages with Edward Lear, and Omar Khayyam rendered by Edward Fitzgerald sits alongside Keats and the Rossettis. The curatorial logic is mysterious: these aren't the obvious choices, the greatest hits. They're someone's favorites, and that personal passion gives the collection its electricity. Every poet arrives in a triptych, allowing you to sit with a voice, to hear its range, before moving to the next. You'll encounter the sonnet's formal precision, the limerick's anarchic humor, the rubaiyat's meditative Eastern mysticism, and the Romantic era's raw yearning. For readers who want to linger rather than skim, who find more reward in three poems deeply read than thirty glanced at.