The Walrus & The Carpenter
£5.95
Poetry and prose pamphlets by Candlestick Press come with an envelope and a bookmark left blank for your own message. They’re a wonderfully thoughtful alternative to the normal greetings card.
This second edition of the popular mini-anthology calls at every stop on love’s roller-coaster journey – from the first dizzy declarations of passion, to the clear-eyed devotion of a couple in old age. Along the way there’s also humour and warmth in the form of a battered straw hat that has come to symbolise what it means to be together for the long haul. These are poems that capture all the light and shade of love; poems to make you think and feel.
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This second edition of Candlestick Press’s popular mini-anthology calls at every stop on love’s roller-coaster journey – from the first dizzy declarations of passion, to the clear-eyed devotion of a couple in old age. In one of the most celebrated of modern love poems, we sense the boundless optimism of love at full tilt:
“…you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”from ‘i carry your heart with me’ by ee cummings
Along the way there’s also humour and warmth in the form of a battered straw hat that has come to symbolise what it means to be together for the long haul. These are poems that capture all the light and shade of love; poems to make you think and feel.
The selection is edited and introduced by Lorraine Mariner, a poet and librarian who works at the National Poetry Library in London.
Poems by Fleur Adcock, John Ashbery, ee cummings, Tishani Doshi, Lorraine Mariner,Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Sinéad Morrissey, Peter Sansom, Alfred Lord Tennysonand RS Thomas.
Cover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows.
20 printed pages.
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“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax,
Of cabbages and kings
And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings.”
THE WALRUS & THE CARPENTER
