{"product_id":"almanac-2027","title":"Almanac: Twelve Poems for 2027","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe January poem in our Almanac is by Jane Simmons and conjures a freezing day when “the sky is missing” and the moon “a pearl in the stern eye of winter”. We enter the year at the darkest time before travelling onwards into the contrasting beauties of spring, summer and autumn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach of the twelve poems paints a vivid picture, whether of a red maple leaf ready to open in May or a late harvest in Scotland in September:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Rooks go clattering over the sycamores\u003cbr\u003ewhose shadows yawn after them, down to the river.\u003cbr\u003eUncut wheat staggers under its own weight.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom ‘September’ by Dorothy Lawrenson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems remind us to take stock of the passing year as it unfolds. What better way to welcome the first day of a new month than by reading a beautiful poem and reflecting on the years gone by and the one to come?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected by Katharine Towers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoems by Ruth Bidgood, Maura Dooley, Rita Dove, Dorothy Lawrenson, Gregory Leadbetter, Amy Lowell, Walter de la Mare, Jane Simmons, Joseph Stroud, Sara Teasdale, Edward Thomas and Francis Brett Young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover illustration by Rebecca Vincent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall books\/pamphlets that are part of the popular Candlestick Press range.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57650710708604,"sku":null,"price":6.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/A2027-01-p1.jpg?v=1791816391","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/almanac-2027","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}