A Lifetime of Love
This is a truly remarkable numbered limited edition – a unique collection of love poems, written since 1939 by Moss Rich for his wife Milly to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries.
Published on Valentine's Day 2011, it's a beautiful and moving record of their relationship, presented as a set of 24 cards in a specially designed box set. Each card features one of Moss' poems on one side and a blank space on the other - for you to write your own message of love to your nearest and dearest if you wish. Each box also contains a short explanatory leaflet profiling Moss Rich, Britain's oldest working poet now in his 101st year.
“These love poems are beautiful because of their crafted simplicity and the way they touch the reader with a powerful love expressed over the years,” says Pighog publisher John Davies. “Each poem creates a picture of human kind’s greatest desire and highest achievement – to love and be loved. But the endeavour involved is dealt with lightly, always with a tinge of humour and wit.”
ISBN 978-1-906309-15-2
£15 plus £6 P&P
ANNIVERSARY OCTOBER 1990
We two have spent these many years
Together through thin and thick,
Since I was a chauvinist piglet
And you were a fluffy chick.
Your clucking was my music,
My grunting was your dream
No pig could wish a cosier sty
A happier farmyard scheme.
And now the clucking’s softer
The grunting somewhat deeper,
The farmhouse walls stay steady still
Held fast by the clinging creeper.
