{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-cities","title":"Ten Poems About Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Instead of a Card' is the idea behind the British publisher Candlestick Press' range of gorgeous small poetry pamphlets. 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\u003eMost of us live in cities, and there is a rich tradition of poems about their tireless hustle and bustle. 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. A man,\u003cbr\u003eblue clown, blows two-note whistles for a living.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem class=\"is-italic\"\u003efrom ‘Commerce, Madrid, 2012’ by Carola Luther\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis mini-anthology transports us to cities real and imagined in a delightful kaleidoscope that shimmers and shifts at each rereading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoems by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/evans-suzannah\/\" title=\"View Suzannah Evans Biography\"\u003eSuzannah Evans,\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/fusek-peters-andrew\/\" title=\"View Andrew Fusek-Peters Biography\"\u003eAndrew Fusek-Peters,\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/kassabova-kapka\/\" title=\"View Kapka Kassabova Biography\"\u003eKapka Kassabova,\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/luther-carola\/\" title=\"View Carola Luther Biography\"\u003eCarola Luther,\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/mccullough-john\/\" title=\"View John McCullough Biography\"\u003eJohn McCullough,\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/mookherjee-jessica\/\" title=\"View Jessica Mookherjee Biography\"\u003eJessica Mookherjee,\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/pugh-meryl\/\" title=\"View Meryl Pugh Biography\"\u003eMeryl Pugh,\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/robinson-roger\/\" title=\"View Roger Robinson Biography\"\u003eRoger Robinson,\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/tate-james\/\" title=\"View James Tate Biography\"\u003eJames Tate\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/teasdale-sara\/\" title=\"View Sara Teasdale Biography\"\u003eSara Teasdale.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover illustration by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.candlestickpress.co.uk\/biograpy\/curtis-clare\/\" title=\"View Clare Curtis Biography\"\u003eClare Curtis.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCandlestick Press | 2024 | 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":45990265553092,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0908\/7624\/files\/10PoemsaboutCities.jpg?v=1774593896","url":"https:\/\/paperparrot.com.au\/products\/ten-poems-about-cities","provider":"Paper Parrot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}