Love poetry guru Daisy Goodwin launches interactive website for Valentine´s Day

(London, United Kingdom) February 12th, 2004. Daisy Goodwin is the well-known British author of the best-selling 101 Poems and Essential Poems anthologies. She is also a successful TV producer of such popular shows as Would Like To Meet (BBC2), Grand Designs (Channel 4) and Life Doctor (Channel 5) and is now a TV presenter popularising poetry in the Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) series for BBC2 (now out on DVD and VHS). She judged the Forward Poetry Prize last year and is Chairman of the Poetry Book Society. Daisy Goodwin´s Website (http://www.daisygoodwin.co.uk), launched in time for Valentine´s Day, includes a Poem of the Month page and an online Poetry Doctor who will prescribe a poem to suit your mood.

The launch of the site coincides with the release on the 2nd February 2004 by the BBC of her Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) series on DVD and VHS, starring such well-known names as Amanda Holden, Christopher Lee, Stephen Tompkinson, Ralf Little, Jo Whiley and Andrew Lincoln). "Great poetry is furniture for the mind. Become familiar with the right poems and you change the way you think for ever', Daisy Goodwin comments on the series.

In honour of Saint Valentine, the site has featured a classic love poem, Meeting at Night by Robert Browning, the first poem published in the Essential Poems anthology, as its Poem of the Month, but the site invites aspiring poets to submit their poetry for publication. Fans of Daisy Goodwin's warm and witty anthologies for the self-help generation will enjoy the Poetry Doctor feature which allows them to tell the Doctor how they are feeling, and be prescribed a poem. Daisy's Diary, an online blog, also offers plenty to enjoy with links to a dramatised reading from one of the
Essential Poems series and to her favourite poetry sites.

Visit Daisy Goodwin´s site to see a wide selection of press material about Daisy Goodwin and critic's comments on her TV shows and poetry books. There is also an area for visitors who would like to buy copies of her books or the new DVD and VHS. The site was designed by Tanka (http://www.tanka.co.uk), a London-based company which has worked on such projects as the Emmerdale Farm website, the Tonight website and the Burberry website. Reed, Unilever, Pierre Cardin and Granada Media are among other clients of Tanka. Enkasa (http://www.enkasa.com), a web development agency based in Spain, built the site.

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