Christmas Crackers: Ten Poems to Surprise and Delight
The best things come in little packages. This latest mini-anthology from Candlestick belongs to our new Christmas Collection series and contains brand new poems by ten leading contemporary poets. The poems range from the surreal to the tenderly nostalgic, taking in the perils of an over-crowded shopping mall, the bah
humbug of Christmas enjoyed in glorious solitude and a jaded Mary who has spent far too long on the back of a donkey. We also meet a vibrant, unconventional Christmas Mother: A brook was coiled on her head in loops of auburn hair with aquamarine banks threaded with lizards and snakes
from Christmas Mother by Pascale Petit. If Christmas lapses all too easily into traditional familiarity, these poems will provide a bracing antidote a little something to indulge in while the plum pudding is taking its toll. Poems by Simon Armitage, Panya Banjoko, Alison Brackenbury, Ian Duhig, Jonathan Edwards, WN Herbert, Lorraine Mariner, Pascale Petit, Gregory Woods and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch.
Price:
NZ$ 15.99
paperback
24
137 x 210 mm
01-09-2017
01-11-2023
9781907598548
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