{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-art","title":"Ten Poems about Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCandlestick Press is a small, independent press publishing beautiful ‘Instead of a card’ poetry pamphlets. Based in Nottingham in the UK, we’ve been making our mini-anthologies since 2008 and have now sold over 915,000 titles – which means that we’ve shared over nine million poems with our readers all over the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eGeoff Dyer’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eremarkably wide-ranging selection encourages us to look at familiar and unfamiliar paintings and artists with fresh eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe find ourselves in Vermeer’s studio next door to a rowdy alehouse and meet a Bonnard nude day-dreaming in her bathtub. There’s a contemplative poem capturing the calm of a Vuillard interior, and then there’s life as one of Miró’s dots:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“So here I am, on the edge of animation,\u003cbr\u003ea dream, a dance, a fantastic construction,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA child’s adventure.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem class=\"is-italic\"\u003efrom ‘I Would Like to be a Dot in a Painting by Miró’ by Moniza Alvi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOur pamphlets are supplied with an envelope for posting, a bookmark for a special message and an ‘Instead of a card’ sticker to seal the back of the envelope for a lovely finishing touch.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 24 printed pages\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Candlestick Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47205974147304,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/ten-poems-about-art-poetry-pamphlet-front-cover-550x837.jpg?v=1743540532","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/ten-poems-about-art","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}