{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-mothers","title":"Ten Poems About Mothers","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this revised edition of the Candlestick Press popular mini-anthology, there are poems celebrating all kinds of mothers. There’s the mother who can’t help cooking for “several hundred million imagined diners” and the mother who tries to keep her children’s diet free of harmful additives. There’s also the mother with a special voice for reading bedtime stories and even a yodeling Mother Earth who tells tales and gossips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn one poem, a mirror in the family home seems to contain the past, present and future:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“… the mother\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ewho looks like me, who\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003esmiles at herself in her\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003emother’s mirror, the friendly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003emirror in her mother’s house.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom ‘Mirror’ by Maura Dooley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat all the poems share is a sense of lasting love that flows through the years between mother and son or daughter, surviving the twists, turns and surprises of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 978 1 913627 72 0\u003cbr\u003eFirst published 2011\u003cbr\u003eRevised September 2019\u003cbr\u003eRevised November 2025\u003cbr\u003e24 printed pages (including endpapers)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poetry Pharmacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44547927769371,"sku":"BCP-014","price":6.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9436\/9563\/files\/ten-poems-about-mothers-poetry-pamphlet-group-shot_61198a59-c087-48ab-9b62-02be2fd08a20.jpg?v=1765191107","url":"https:\/\/poetrypharmacy.live\/products\/ten-poems-about-mothers","provider":"The Poetry Pharmacy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}