Learning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the method has fallen from favour as part of the educational system. This small collection of the best English poems offers the reader the chance to re-engage with poetry. Filled with favourites, and thoughtfully selected by Laura Barber (editor of <i>Penguin''s Poems for Life</i> and the forthcoming <i>Penguin''s Poems for Love</i>) this anthologoy is an essential addition to everyone''s repertoire.