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A daily piece of Shakespeare to inspire and delight.

About the Author

Allie Esiri, described in a Tatler profile as 'a poetry powerhouse', is a former English stage, film, and television actress, now a writer. Her iF Poems app was launched to great acclaim in November 2011 and was the Apple Editors' Choice All Time Favourite app. iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility was published in 2012 and The Love Book in 2014. Her collection A Poem for Every Night of the Year was a phenomenal success with rave reviews and her next collection A Poem for Every Day of the Year is just as thoughtful and inspiring. Allie also organizes and hosts live poetry events and is on the advisory board for the Cheltenham Festival. A thousand people attended her event at the National Theatre! Simon Russell Beale is a British actor, author and music historian. He has appeared in Persuasion (1995), The Young Visiters (2003), The Deep Blue Sea (2011) and as Falstaff in the BBC television films Henry IV Part I and Part II (2012) for which he won the 2013 Television BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. He was also part of the main cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful and has been described by The Independent as ‘the greatest stage actor of his generation’.
Simon’s numerous radio and audiobook recordings include War & Peace, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, and Hamlet, The Tempest and Measure for Measure for the Shakespeare CD Series.
Helen McCrory, OBE, is an illustrious British actress. Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to drama, Helen’s roles are many and varied. Since 2013 she has played Aunt Polly, matriarch to the Shelby crime family, in Peaky Blinders, the enormously popular historical drama based on Birmingham’s gangs in the 1920s. Helen also portrayed the cool and elegant Narcissa Malfoy in the final three films of the Harry Potter franchise. Helen can also be heard as the voice of Stelmaria, daemon to Lord Asriel, in HBO’s adaptation of His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. On stage, Helen has played some of literature’s most famous women, including Medea and Lady Macbeth. British actor Damian Lewis is most well known for his Best Actor Golden Globe-nominated performance as the American World War II hero, Major Richard Winters, in the Emmy-winning HBO mini-series Band of Brothers. He also portrayed Soames Forsyte in the acclaimed ITV/Granada production of The Forsyte, and the title character in Keane. More recently he played Los Angeles Detective Charlie Crews in the NBC drama Life. Harriet Jane Morahan is an English television, film and theatre actress. Her television roles include The Bletchley Circle, The Gilded Age. She has appeared in films like Fool Me Once, Enola Holmes and Beauty and the Beast. For theatre, Harriet has performed inn productions of Anatomy of a Suicide, The Family Reunion and Twelfth Night. As a voice actress, she has featured in numerous Doctor Who audio plays as companion Helen Sinclair, for Big Finish Productions. Jade Anouka is an English actress and poet. She is known for her various stage roles and for her appearances in the ITV dramas Trauma and Cleaning Up. Paapa Essiedu is a British actor. He is known for his work in theatre, though he has also worked in film and television. He won the 2016 Ian Charleson Award for his title role in Hamlet and Edmund in King Lear, both at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Born and bred in Somerset, Ben has worked predominantly in theatre since graduating from drama school, including a number one tour with ATG as well as All's Well That Ends Well and The History Boys at the National Theatre. He has worked on a number of projects, including a podcast for David Nicholls's One Day, Learning English as a Foreign Language for Dummies, It’s a Guy Thing, Afternoon Reading for BBC Radio 4 and CAE for Cambridge Esol. Jot Davies was brought up by teacher parents in Kenya, Colombia and the Isle of Wight. He eventually studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University where he acted in and directed probably too many plays. After touring with the Footlights in his final year, Jot joined the BBC Radio Drama Company and cut his audio teeth in plays, live comedy shows and readings. It was a natural and welcome step into audiobooks and now he is an award-winning narrator, across most genres, with well over a hundred books to his name. Allie Esiri, described in a Tatler profile as 'a poetry powerhouse', is a former English stage, film, and television actress, now a writer. Her iF Poems app was launched to great acclaim in November 2011 and was the Apple Editors' Choice All Time Favourite app. iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility was published in 2012 and The Love Book in 2014. Her collection A Poem for Every Night of the Year was a phenomenal success with rave reviews and her next collection A Poem for Every Day of the Year is just as thoughtful and inspiring. Allie also organizes and hosts live poetry events and is on the advisory board for the Cheltenham Festival. A thousand people attended her event at the National Theatre!

Reviews

[On A Poem for Every Day] 'Not only is it a thing of beauty, it also offers an accessible, informative, bitesize approach to poetry.'
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