Tokens for the Foundlings

Tokens for the Foundlings is a unique anthology of poems about orphans, childhood and family inspired by and supporting the work of the Foundling Museum.

Edited by prize-winning poet Tony Curtis and foreword by author and journalist Daisy Goodwin, the anthology includes poems by over seventy poets, among them – Nobel Prize poet Seamus Heaney, the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Orange Prize winner Helen Dunmore, Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic, and T.S.Eliot Prize winners Philip Gross, Sean O’Brien, Don Paterson and George Szirtes.

Contributing poem, Coram's Cloth by Tony Curtis has been selected as a Poem of the Week by The Guardian.

Published by Seren Books. The royalties from the sales of the book are donated to the Museum in support of our work.

To purchase this item please contact the Foundling Museum Shop via +44 (0)207 841 3600 or email shop@foundlingmuseum.org.uk.