Dangerous Cakes

By Elspeth Smith

Poetry. "In these succinct and deceptively simple poems, Smith makes dancing and wine-glasses and summers gone into emblems of longing and lasting, with marvellous eldritch conviction. There is sweet (not over-sweet) nostalgia here, and wit, as well as a gleam of malevolent knowing peeping through the damask. What does it know? That the delightful parties do not go on forever."--Zachary Bos

"Elspeth Smith's poems are indeed 'dangerous cakes'; tiny parcels of benign delightfulness with danger at their centres. A patch of grass, a fresh covering of snow, an old shoe box take a sinister turn if you dare to join the party."--Lorraine Mariner

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908998059
• ISBN13: 9781908998057
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Eyewear Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"