Instead of a Card: Ten Poems about Getting Older T-shirts

Instead of a Card: Ten Poems about Getting Older T-shirtsA greeting that not only gives great pleasure but illuminates our liveslike a message in a bottle.Robert McCrum, writer and editor Ten Poems about Getting Older 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. Being old isnt what it used to be. Sixty is the new forty. The world is full of expressions designed to make us feel

Knowing and Not Knowing from the June 27

Let your thoughts turn heavenward as you gaze at this colorful solar system paperweight with its galaxies and planets

and context surrounding them

She also has a radio series

The Last Idol from the November 6

Joseph Brooker is a Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck

The Imperfect Spy from the June 26

A Hidden Life from the July 1

The Disaster at Lincoln Center from the April 2

The cards are printed in gold foil on 100% cotton

a “crooked” heart (W

which Ernest Hemingway famously described as a “movable feast