Diaries in the digital age seem a quaint remnant from a bygone era.
For cold, hard appointment keeping, your tablet or phone is perfectly adequate.

But for concise elegance in date data, THE FABER & FABER POETRY DIARY 2015 is an appointment application par excellence.
Stationery meets the literary in this handsomely bound volume that will adorn any desk or handbag.

Here beside each page of weekly assignations, seven days to the page, sits one page of peerless poetry.

Fifty two weeks featuring forty poets, from the past to the present, from Simon Armitage to W.B. Yeats, all of them inspirational, all of them greats.

Instead of or in accompaniment to the desk calendar with their flip pages of flip aphorism, THE FABER & FABER POETRY DIARY 2015 endows a weekly serve of superb writing, a week spent with Shelley or Smith, Sylvia or T.S.

Shared days with Dylan, Durrell, Dickinson and Donne, give way to weeks with W.H. and Walcott, and months with Molloy, Motion, Muir and Muldoon.

Here’s a year with Hughes, Harsent, Herrick and Heaney, an annual with the perennial Paterson, Plath and Pound.

Apart from the glorious poetry, there are reproductions of famous covers from the Faber stable.

Practical in its calendars, flagging of important days, space for entries and end note pages, THE FABER & FABER POETRY DIARY 2015 is an excellent primer of past and present poetry, a daily dose of dipping into the familiar or discovering exponents that will instill, inspire and ignite.

Pressed for something practical yet personal and elegant for a Christmas gift, THE FABER & FABER POETRY DIARY 2015 warrants your consideration, a treasure at the very modest recommended retail price of 24.99.