{"product_id":"9781908998057","title":"Dangerous Cakes","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. \"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 \u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eyewear Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057406034160,"sku":"9781908998057","price":14.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908998057_p0.jpg?v=1763624475","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908998057","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}