Publisher: Candlestick Press

Most of us can remember our first kiss, whether it was glorious and transporting or merely awkward. Kissing, it transpires, can happen anywhere – on a train, in a city park or against a kitchen fridge. The poems dramatise the fact that a kiss can make time stand still or send us into a dizzy spin: "And the world all whirling Round in joy Like the dance of a dervish..." from "Kisses in the Train" by DH Lawrence The selection wouldn’t be complete without a sly antidote to all this romance, which is why we’ve included Mary Ruefle’s ‘Why I Am Not A Good Kisser’ with its inventory of things not to do or think about when a kiss is in the offing. Poems by Kim Addonizio, Marjorie Allen Seiffert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Hattie Grünewald, DH Lawrence, Roddy Lumsden, David Mills, Shazea Quraishi, Mary Ruefle, Roberta Spear, Sara Teasdale and Jean Toomer.

Bind: stationery

Pages: 24

Dimensions: 137 x 210 mm

Publication Date: 31-01-2024

Availability Date: 31-05-2024

Tags: Coming Soon   March 2024   Instead of a Card Poems