Instead of a Card: Fourteen Poems about Kissing For the List Maker and Ezra Pound from the

and Ezra Pound from the May 27

The design on this luminous silk chiffon scarf is based on Magnolias and Irises

Her work inspirations include nature and imagining the secret lives of woodland animals while on walks with her children

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Instead of a Card: Fourteen Poems about Kissing For the List Maker and Ezra Pound from theA greeting that not only gives great pleasure but illuminates our liveslike a message in a bottleRobert McCrum, writer and editor Fourteen Poems about Kissing is a title in the Instead of a Card series, based on the idea that sending a greeting card is a lovely gesture, and sending a booklet of poetry an even more meaningful one. Most of us can remember our first kiss, whether it was glorious and transporting or merely awkward. Kissing, it transpires,