Tender
100 poems for the first 100 days of life
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Canongate Books
Publishing:5th Mar '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 5th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'Harry Baker's way with words is entirely fascinating' DONNA ASHWORTH
'A charming, fun, funny, revelatory, relatable wordsmith' RAYMOND ANTROBUS
Tender captures all the tiny, fragile, perfect moments of new life and, with it, new parenthood. Full of sleepless wonder and with his characteristic wit and warmth, Harry Baker offers snapshots into the intense first 100 days with his son as they get to know each other.
A yawn from a tiny pink mouth, a kind word from a stranger on a difficult day, the weight of a body sleeping against your chest - parents will recognise both themselves and their children in Tender and find consolation in this collection.
What a gift Harry Baker has to fill pages with such beauty and humour and happiness. Tender is an exquisite, funny look into the life and love of a new dad -- HOLLIE McNISH
In Tender Harry has captured the wonder, joy and trepidation of being a new parent wonderfully. Harry uses words like a painter uses colours, combining them in a unique way to create images that allow us to see the world through new eyes -- JOHN BISHOP
Tender captures all the best things about Harry Baker's poetry: his heart, his hilarity and his intellect. A gorgeous new book from the wordsmith of warmth -- MICHAEL MULLEN
Harry Baker is hilarious, generous and a glowing presence on the page. Tender is a total joy; a book that made me simultaneously broody and deeply relieved to sleep through the night. To be completely honest, it's quite rude of him to have written something so brilliant while surviving the first 100 days with a newborn -- GEORGIE JONES
A book that makes me feel really proud to be a dad and slightly smug that I read poetry -- IAIN STIRLING
Praise for Harry Baker: 'Absolutely beautiful -- ZOE BALL
Harry Baker is a charming, fun, funny, revelatory, relatable wordsmith -- RAYMOND ANTROBUS
He's a mathematician and a poet, so his words are very well calculated -- BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
I'm in the Harry Baker fan club -- JACQUELINE WILSON
He's a champion -- ED SHEERAN
ISBN: 9781837264636
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
176 pages
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