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title: Poetry by Season 
description: A simple guide to the verse that suits each turn of the year, for the person who likes their reading to keep time with the light
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-06-16T17:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-06-29T08:44:01.017Z
canonical: https://richwoman.co/article/poetry-by-season
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categories: Fiction
content_type: Guide
region: Global
publication: Rich Books
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There is a particular kind of reader who knows that a poem read in the wrong season lands softly, and a poem read in the right one goes straight through. A winter elegy in July is a coat you do not need. The same poem in January, with the dark coming down at four, is a hand on the shoulder. Poetry has always kept time with the year, because poetry began as the thing people said to mark the year, the harvest, the solstice, the first warm morning, the last leaf. This is a guide for reading it the way it was meant to be read, in step with the light outside the window.

You do not need to follow it in order. Begin wherever you are standing. The year will come round to meet you.

### Spring, the poetry of beginning again

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