{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-husbands-and-wives","title":"Ten Poems about Husbands and Wives","description":"“If ever two were one, then surely we.” So says the seventeenth-century poet Anne Bradstreet. These days, her portrayal of the marriage bond as one of unconditional mutual devotion might underestimate the complexity of the husband\/wife relationship. The other poems in this vivid and entertaining mini-anthology go on to celebrate just that.\n\nOur selection offers moments of tenderness, romance and wry humour. There’s a poem in which a newly-married woman reflects on the “woosh” sound of the word wife and another where a man wonders about a woman he’s never met, as if he could have married her. We encounter a mysterious wife who arrives when the tide is right, while for Tiffany Atkinson a husband is like a farmers’ market, his heart “…a loom of many rhizomes”.\n\nThese beguiling poems are arranged in pairs so they speak to each other across the page – rather like a husband and wife engrossed in conversation across an old kitchen table.\n\nSelected by Di Slaney and Katharine Towers.\n\nPoems by Moniza Alvi, Tiffany Atk","brand":"Candlestick Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58013736436099,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0797\/1438\/6230\/files\/29ab9d17292deafe53bb439f9f1f292fd6711a32cab8b8783e4b712f748223f3.jpg?v=1778368954","url":"https:\/\/floreannspantry.myshopify.com\/products\/ten-poems-about-husbands-and-wives","provider":"Flore@Annspantry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}