Ten Poems about Fathers 

Poems about fathers and fatherhood. Short poems with affection and humour, alongside fond memories.

A father carries his young daughter on his shoulders after a trip to the pantomime and realises how precious such moments are.  And others remind us the everyday happenings that become special with hindsight: a family meal at which a dad contends with a hot potato, or the nightly ritual of an ageing father who insists on turning off the water before he goes to bed in case a pipe bursts while he's asleep

Poems by Coral Bracho, Lewis Carroll, Louise Glück, Tony Harrison, Tariq Latif, Joanne Limburg, Roger McGough, Shazea Quraishi, Michael Rosen and Siriol Troup

Cover illustration by Hilke MacIntyre