Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers (poems on the weather)

If you love nature and poetry, here are inspirational books to enjoy. Whether you keep them by your bedside table, or perhaps enjoy reading under a tree or in the garden on summer days, these nature poems capture the breeze in the trees, the song of a bird or the chill of a winter’s day.

Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers is an anthology of classic and contemporary poems all about the weather. From storms to heatwaves to April showers, there’s a poem to reflect all the elements through the year.

From the nursery rhyme ‘Rain, Rain, Go Away’ to Sylvia Plath’s ‘Black Rook in Rainy Weather’, and from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘A Snowy Day’ to Amanda Gorman’s ‘Earthrise’, slip into a poem to dream of better weather (whether to you that means snow, rain or sun).

Or just reveal in a mirroring of what is currently  going on outside your window. There is all sorts of weather to be found; some favourites as well as some you may not even have heard of.

With a selection of poems stretching across the globe and centuries, you’re sure to find a weather poem to cast some sunlight on your day.