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“... energetic to head up the whole operation, or it’s dead before it starts. Thankfully, there’s Daisy Goodwin, who has lovely dark hair and perfect teeth: just the person to encourage the use of poetry as a kind of mental flossing. The message is slick and pretty as an ad for Colgate: regular reading of poetry keeps you sparkling, even if it sometimes ...”

“... cousin Franklin Roosevelt, found and edited by Geoffrey Ward) and No Ordinary Time (Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the home front during World War Two) are products of the current obsession with the private lives of public figures. But the books about the President’s women are written in the opposite spirit from the one about ...”

“... bath oil’ and ‘state of the art therapy’. Several of these anthologies were edited by Daisy Goodwin – 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life (1999), 101 Poems to Get You through the Day (and Night) (2000) and 101 Poems to Keep You Sane (2001) – and, as Bucknell shows, a plethora of similarly titled collections followed. She relates these ...”