Instead Of A Card - Ten Poems about Hats

Instead Of A Card - Ten Poems about Hats

These delightful 'pamphlets' are perfect for those that want to give a bit more than a card but not quite a more substantial gift
They contain a series of shorter poems on the subject by well known poets. There is plenty of space to compose your piece of poetry or message for the recipient as well
Included are a bookmark and a sticker seal for the back of the envelope (included)

• Format: Paperback
• Pages:  24
• Dimensions: 137 x 210 mm

Coco Chanel declared a hat to be essential when lunching with people one didn’t know very well. These days such pretensions may seem old hat but we still set store by this quintessentially personal item of clothing.

In these pages we encounter hats of all shapes and sizes. There’s a grandfather’s beloved trilby and an imagined bathing cap belonging to Napoleon. There’s also a “hopeful hat” waiting for coins on a city pavement. Best of all, perhaps, we experience the old-fashioned glamour of a milliner’s shop:

“There are multi-coloured reels, ends of rickrack, bias bindings, tiny satin flowers, and hats with floppy brimson blank-faced, long-necked Nefertiti heads,”
from ‘Cloche’ by John Foggin

These varied poems will delight and entertain in equal measure.