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We can learn as much from them as they from us. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlison Brackenbury is an award-winning poet who has kept and loved horses for most of her life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems by Alison Brackenbury, Jane Commane, Tony Curtis, Sally Goldsmith, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Jen Hadfield, Dorothy Hewett, Geoffrey Holloway, Maxine Kumin and Robert Wrigley. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCover illustration by Lizzie Ginbey and Barry Tottle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCandlestick Press | 2023 | Paperback | 20 pages | 21 x 13.7 x 0.3cm | 70g\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peribo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43729379590340,"sku":"YBS_9781907598791","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0908\/7624\/files\/horses.jpg?v=1717072498"},{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-trees","title":"Ten Poems About Trees - Pamphlet Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Instead of a Card' is the idea behind the British publisher Candlestick Press' range of gorgeous small poetry pamphlets. 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Or perhaps it's one of the ancient and majestic yews or oaks that stand sentinel in churchyards and on village greens, hardly seeming to change as the human years hurry by. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis beautiful selection celebrates the glory and mystery of all manner of trees from David Constantine's apple tree clothed in frost to Alistair Elliot's birch waving its 'delicate hair' in the breeze. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I'm thankful to the trees outside my window\" says Moniza Alvi at the beginning of her quietly rhapsodic poem of the same name. This is tree-love of the everyday kind the simple pleasure of looking out on a garden from which familiar trees look back. 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There's also a hopeful hat waiting for coins on a city pavement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Best of all, perhaps, we experience the old-fashioned glamour of a milliner's shop: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eThere are multi-coloured reels, ends of rickrack, bias bindings,                                           tiny satin flowers, and hats with floppy brims                                                                     on blank-faced, long-necked Nefertiti heads,\"                                                                       - from 'Cloche' by John Foggin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese varied poems will delight and entertain in equal measure. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems by Rita Dove, John Foggin, John Freeman, Clarinda Harriss, Robert Hedin, Linda Pastan, Carole Satyamurti, James Tate, Andrew Taylor and ASJ Tessimond. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCover illustration by Jane Burn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCandlestick Press | 2024 | Paperback | 24 pages | 21 x 13.7 x 0.3cm | 70g\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peribo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43782378979524,"sku":"YBS_9781913627331","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0908\/7624\/files\/Untitled_design_17_495e3a2e-e500-4b2e-9dc5-3e8d5653c956.jpg?v=1717905840"},{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-cricket","title":"Ten Poems About Cricket, Introduced by John Lucas","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Instead of a Card' is the idea behind the British publisher Candlestick Press' range of gorgeous small poetry pamphlets. 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Although it may indeed be mission impossible , he has nonetheless chosen ten superb poems to whet the appetite, including one that he describes as quite possibly the best poem about cricket ever written . The poems capture the game and its history, the excitement of the moment and the hinterland of reminiscence, eulogy and elegy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"...the bowler six times looped a slow ball                                                                         like a deeply considered question,                                                                                   and six times the batsman in his plum cap                                                                 leaned very attentively and returned an answer.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e    - from 'Near Greenford, 1951' by Brian Jones \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems by John Arlott, Adrian Buckner, Joan Downar, Philip Hodgins, Brian Jones, John Lucas, Matt Merritt, Hubert Moore, Norman Nicholson and Kit Wright\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e John Lucas | Candlestick Press | 2023 | Paperback | 24 pages | 21 x 13.7 x 0.3cm | 66g\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peribo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43796408565956,"sku":"YBS_9781907598395","price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0908\/7624\/files\/Untitled_design_17_cfd0be24-c2c2-4472-926c-0a2474a926f9.jpg?v=1718160168"},{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-mothers","title":"Ten Poems About Mothers","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Instead of a Card' is the idea behind the British publisher Candlestick Press' range of gorgeous small poetry pamphlets. 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Most of us see only a fraction of their absorbing routines but their ‘bee-lines’ through our parks and gardens are more than enough to suggest their dedication:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“…they make a life for themselves that knows\u003cbr\u003eno let-up through hours of exploration and return,\u003cbr\u003etheir thighs golden with pollen…”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem class=\"is-italic\"\u003efrom ‘Back they sputter’ by Eamon Grennan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere are poems about getting stung and about a bee-keeping Divinity master in a boarding school whose hives are far more appealing than PE lessons. 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In \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/mookherjee-jessica\/\" title=\"View Jessica Mookherjee Biography\"\u003eJessica Mookherjee’s\u003c\/a\u003e lively selection, we find poems that explore the hectic rhythms of day-to-day life in a city, as well as the rather more mysterious character of a city at night – a place where streetlights and “drunken rooftops” create a dreamscape in which anything might happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEver present is the sense that a city never stops:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“All afternoon labouring geese fly over the city. Cars hoot,\u003cbr\u003esirens fugue. Beneath bank towers, a statue shifts. 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With covers created by leading contemporary artists and poems hand-picked to speak to every kind of reader, all their titles offer a richly rewarding reading journey.  Pamphlets are supplied with an envelope for posting and a bookmark for a special message. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume -\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDads, fathers, papas, daddies: the poems in this updated edition of our best-selling mini-anthology explore fatherhood from a host of angles. We encounter a father who likes running up hills, a father who plays the accordion and – poignantly – a father who needs to be taught how to hug.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems celebrate the fact that fathers can be both protectors and purveyors of imaginative childhood adventures:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“My father was a bear.\u003cbr\u003eHe carried me through forest, sky\u003cbr\u003eand over frozen sea. At night\u003cbr\u003eI lay along his back\u003cbr\u003ewrapped in fur and heat\u003cbr\u003eand while I slept, he ran…”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem class=\"is-italic\"\u003efrom ‘You May Have Heard of Me’ by Shazea Quraishi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are also poems of tender remembrance. 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