Ten Poems about Aunts

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'There is nothing but good to be said of aunts,' wrote the Irish essayist Robert Lynd. And indeed, the poems in this pamphlet, introduced and selected by anthologist Anne Harvey, remind us of the love and esteem that aunts can inspire.

True, auntly literary history boasts the odd gorgon – think Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice – but for the most part, aunts are seen as benign, even essential, participants in the lives of their nieces and nephews.

These moving and entertaining poems are about aunts who work hard, play hard, occasionally prop up the bar or fall out of trees, but are always to hand to show their nieces and nephews solidarity or to mop up tears.

To Auntie
'Chief of our Aunts,' not only I
But all your dozen nurslings cry –
'What did the other children do?
And what were childhood, wanting you?'
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Christine Webb, Virginia Graham, Stevie Smith, Norman MacCaig, Langston Hughes, Martin Armstrong, Charles Causley and Harry Graham.

Illustrated by Amy Blackwell.

ISBN: 9781907598173
Author: HARVEY, ANNE
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01/06/2013
RRP: $14.99
Pages: 20
Dimension: 210mm X 137mm
Imprint: Candlestick Press