{"product_id":"ten-poems-about-cows-poetry-book-paperback","title":"Ten Poems About Cows - Poetry Book - Paperback","description":"Black and white, brown, smooth-coated or shaggy (with horns), cows are so familiar in our rural landscapes that we often forget to notice them. These poems redress that, paying close and loving attention to the lives of cows – their private joys and public duties – while celebrating the fact of their undeniable cow-ness.\u003cbr\u003eWe find cows grazing, being born, being milked, being drawn by a child – not to mention the eminently recitable cow poem that many of us will remember from school days:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The friendly cow, all red and white,\u003cbr\u003eI love with all my heart:\u003cbr\u003eShe gives me cream with all her might,\u003cbr\u003eTo eat with apple-tart.”\u003cbr\u003efrom ‘The Cow’ by Robert Louis Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe selection is edited by poet Hilary Menos who used to run a herd of 40 pedigree Red Ruby Devon cattle.\u003cbr\u003ePoems by Hayden Carruth, Jim Carruth, Gillian Clarke, Edmund Vance Cooke, Ruth Dallas, Tjawangwa Dema, Selima Hill, Hilary Menos, Evan Gill Smith and Robert Louis Stevenson.\u003cbr\u003ePUBLISHER:\u003cbr\u003eCandlestick Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBIND:\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePAGES:\u003cbr\u003e28\u003cbr\u003eDIMENSIONS:\u003cbr\u003e137 x 210 mm","brand":"NATIONWIDE BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41798077874309,"sku":"PR427344","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/volts9781913627393_0_TSM5NUM4XEGR.jpg?v=1786165665","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/ten-poems-about-cows-poetry-book-paperback","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}