Open - Mouthed. A cutting edge book of Food poetry

Open - Mouthed A cutting edge book of Food poetry
by Four Devon Poets

Eat your words ! Poetry on a plate..

Here you will find Alphabet Soup and Elvers; Cornish Earlies and Borscht, Pistachios and Mussels, Gathering Mushrooms alongside a hostess trolley, Tripe an Cow 'eels, Sad Cake and Sloes, Trout Hatcheries and Meat Commissions, Dartmouth Crab, Riverford Rocket, Mushy Peas, Feeding the Dolls, Curried Squirrel and Mammoth..

  ..These are just a few of the sixty-four mouth watering poems by James Crowden, Lawrence Sail, Alan Peacock & Elisabeth Rowe.

Open - Mouthed is a true feast for the senses, an a la carte menu of poems, al fresco, al dente, succulent morsels plucked from the hedgerows and kitchens both at home and abroad. Four very different voices all connected in some way with the Westcountry, Dartington and Devon. Here you can graze to your heart's content, sample the hors d'oeuvre, short spicy little numbers, the succulent main course, long languorous poems for summer, just desserts, the fruit, the wine, the cider, the orchards, a real celebration of food and poetry folded into one spine, one book.

James Crowden was born in Plymouth and has written nine books. He grew up on the western edge of Dartmoor where he developed a penchant for cider, pasties and saffron buns.
 Elisabeth Rowe lives on the edge of Dartmoor and read English at Oxford. Her first book of poems, Surface Tension, was published by Peterloo Poets in 2003.

Lawrence Sail lives in Exeter and has published nine collections of poems, most recently Eye-Baby (Bloodaxe Books, 2006).
 Alan Peacock grew up in the Pennines, has published five collections of poetry and has lived in Devon since 1988.
 The foreword is by Carol Trewin - Food Editor of Western Morning News. Prospect Books publish historical and contemporary food books and is run by leading food writer, critic and publisher Tom Jaine of Allaleigh, Totnes.

"Scoring a bull's eye... sheer magic" 
 Phillipa Davenport, Financial Times

published by Prospect Books

ISBN coming soon

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