Instead of a Card: Fourteen Poems about Kissing Diplomats Alligator Trimming the Tree

Alligator Trimming the Tree

Thé du Hammam: try this gourmet and fruity green tea that evokes green dates

Packaged in a beautiful blue double door box featuring imagery from Bosch’s five-panel triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Turning Point

Message inside

Instead of a Card: Fourteen Poems about Kissing Diplomats Alligator Trimming the TreeA greeting that not only gives great pleasure but illuminates our liveslike a message in a bottleRobert McCrum, writer and editor Fourteen Poems about Kissing is a title in the Instead of a Card series, based on the idea that sending a greeting card is a lovely gesture, and sending a booklet of poetry an even more meaningful one. Most of us can remember our first kiss, whether it was glorious and transporting or merely awkward. Kissing, it transpires,