The first of her series of anthologies published by Pan Macmillan is the bestselling A Poem for Every Night of the Year which won the IBW Book award 2017.
Esiri read Modern and Medieval Languages at St Catharine's College, Cambridge,[2][3] where she appeared in numerous productions, including The Winter's Tale directed by Tim Supple and an acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Sam Mendes, starring Tom Hollander and which also featured future deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
[4] She later appeared in TV shows including Sharpe, The Bill, Goodnight Sweetheart, Men Behaving Badly, A Touch of Frost, Call Red, Minder and Van der Valk.
In 1995, she played Lady Kiely in the television programme Sharpe's Battle, alongside Sean Bean and Hugh Fraser, with whom she had previously appeared in the Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
Other acting credits include Dr Faustus at Greenwich Theatre, David Hare's The Secret Rapture, Twelfth Night and Macbeth directed by Michael Bogdanov for the English Shakespeare Company.
She wrote freelance articles for publications such as American Vogue, The New York Times, and London's Evening Standard ES magazine, and now works in the world of poetry and technology.
It has 300 poems, quotes, letters and short stories on the theme of love, read by Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Watson, Damian Lewis, Tom Hiddleston, Helen McCrory and Gina Bellman.
A new hardback anthology, "A Poem For Every Night of the Year", compiled by and with introductory paragraphs by Esiri, was published by Macmillan Children's Books in September 2016.
A Poem for Every Day of the Year show at the National Theatre took place on 10 November 2017 - joining Esiri on stage were actors Adjoa Andoh, Simon Russell Beale, Joanna Lumley, Stephen Mangan, Helen McCrory and Samuel West.
The launch show at the National Theatre was dedicated to long-term collaborator Helen McCrory and was curated by Esiri and co-hosted with Damian Lewis.
Friends of Helen McCrory joined Esiri and Lewis for the hour's show on the Lyttleton stage: Simon Russell Beale, Fay Ripley, Lesley Sharp and Danny Sapani.