Goodnight, Starry Night: Bedtime poems inspired by works of art
- Publisher : Thames & Hudson
- Publishing year : September 2024
- Binding : Hardback
- ISBN : 9780500653333
- Imprint : Thames
- Age Group : Early Reader
- Language : English
Written by award-winning performance poet Joseph Coelho, Goodnight, Starry Night is a collection of 14 poems t ...
Written by award-winning performance poet Joseph Coelho, Goodnight, Starry Night is a collection of 14 poems that takes readers on a gentle journey into dreamland. Each poem is inspired by a calming work of art, reproduced in the book alongside the heart-warming illustrations of Allison Colpoys.
The book takes its title from Van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night, which inspired Coelho’s evocative poem River Sky:
I gaze upon the starry night
It twists into a river-sky
my every breath, a swirling light
I gaze upon the starry night.
It features poems inspired by David Hockney’s Sleeping Dogs, Vivian Maier’s Woman with Baby and Faith Ringgold’s quilted artwork of Cassie Lightfoot flying against a night sky.
Joseph Coelho’s lyrical poems calm the mind, relax the body and are soothing to the soul, and are guaranteed to inspire the sweetest of dreams.
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