Instead of a Card: Ten Poems about Bees Journalists making it an attractive keepsake

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The series started in 1999 with the publication of Richard Hughes’s A High Wind in Jamaica and now has over 500 titles in print

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Instead of a Card: Ten Poems about Bees Journalists making it an attractive keepsakeA greeting that not only gives great pleasure but illuminates our liveslike a message in a bottle.Robert McCrum, writer and editor Ten Poems about Bees 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. Bees work hard, and there is something in their diligence that touches us. Most of us see only a fraction of their absorbing