{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-chocolate","title":"Ten Poems about Chocolate","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryday treat, indulgent luxury or an addiction we can’t or won’t break – many of us have a passionate relationship with chocolate, making it perfect subject matter for poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis luscious mini-anthology celebrates preferences for milk or plain, pralines or fondants, rich truffles or the sweetest hot chocolate drinks. Anyone who has ever craved chocolate will identify with poems that explore its sensuous aspects – taste, texture, mouthfeel – in an intensity akin to love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd if chocolate is like love, then these poems explore the depth and shape of that love:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Knotted smoke, dark punch\u003cbr\u003eof earth and night and leaf,\u003cbr\u003efor a taste of you\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eany woman would gladly\u003cbr\u003ecrumble to ruin.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom ‘Chocolate’ by Rita Dove\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese entertaining, unexpected and moving poems also explore the history of chocolate, and the price paid by those whose hard work brings it to our lips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected and introduced by Di Slaney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoems by Clare Best, Alison Brackenbury, Barbara Crooker, Rita Dove, Roy Marshall, Ife Olatona, Pauline Prior-Pitt, Louis Simpson, Oenone Thomas and Noel Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDonation to Fairtrade Foundation.\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":57636315922812,"sku":null,"price":6.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/TPAC-02-P1.jpg?v=1791722494","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/ten-poems-about-chocolate","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}