{"product_id":"erotic-poems-edited-by-peter-washington","title":"'Erotic Poems' edited by Peter Washington","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"772\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"300\"\u003eErotic Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is an Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets anthology selected by Peter Washington, gathering erotic verse across centuries, moods, and traditions.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"772\"\u003eThe contents move from Ovid, Hafiz, Horace, Baudelaire, and Bhartrhari through to Robert Graves, Octavio Paz, Thom Gunn, Paul Éluard, Joseph Brodsky, and others — less a novelty book than a compact survey of desire as appetite, wit, longing, embarrassment, worship, theatre, and language having a little too much fun with itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"774\" data-end=\"1136\"\u003eThis is a handsome little hardback, the erotic here is not just decorative steam on the mirror; it ranges from courtly to comic, devotional to filthy-adjacent, tender to appalled. Good for poetry browsers, gift-givers with taste, and anyone who prefers desire written by people with real sentence-level control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1303\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEveryman’s Library Pocket Poets hardback, 1994. Very good, with light shelf wear to boards\/jacket and mild page toning. Ribbon marker intact.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44972599279699,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-31T145946.072.png?v=1780203598","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/erotic-poems-edited-by-peter-washington","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}