Midnight Feasts: Tasty poems chosen by A.F. Harrold

By A. F. Harrold and Katy Riddell

The perfect Christmas gift for any food or poetry lover, this scrumptious illustrated hardback contains over 50 poems about every type of food imaginable.

Food is the one thing that unites us all – across time, nations and peoples. From chocolate, rice pudding and sandwiches to breakfast in bed, marmalade in the bath and the fruit of a mythical jelabi tree, in Midnight Feasts A.F. Harrold brings together a wonderful and diverse collection of poems to tickle your taste buds.

Poets include Ian McMillan, Brian Patten, Choman Hardi, Imtiaz Dharker, William Carlos Williams, Salena Godden, Joseph Coelho, Sabrina Mahfouz, Lewis Carroll, W.S. Gilbert and A.E. Housman, as well as A.F. Harrold himself.

This stunning poetry book is beautifully illustrated in full colour by rising star Katy Riddell (daughter of former Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell) and is the perfect present – at Christmas or any other time year. It will have the poetry and food fans in your life licking their lips!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: Oct 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781472944047

A. F. Harrold

A.F. Harrold (1975 - present) is an English poet and author who writes and performs for adults and children. Some of the things he makes (books, poems, faces) are funny, some are strange, some are sad, and many of them involve the privilege of working with amazing illustrators. He often visits schools, reading poems and running workshops and juggling ideas. He is the owner of many books, a handful of hats, a few good ideas and one beard. He lives in Reading with a stand-up comedian and two cats.

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Contents

Questions on an Empty Stomach by Shauna Darling Robertson

Unexpected Guests by John Siddique

Bread by Matt Harvey

Crisps with Custard by Jude Simpson

You and Whose Sarnie? by Shauna Darling Robertson

My Dinosaur, Dining by Graham Denton

Mother’s Day by Tiffany Taylor

Lemon by Angela Topping

Never Trust a Lemon by Roger Stevens

Sunny Side Up by Matt Harvey

The Hen by Lord Alfred Douglas

Underwater by June Melby

The Perils of Breakfast by A.F. Harrold

Rabbit by Christopher Reid

Au-Dear by Mike Barfield

In my Supermarket Trolley by Roger Stevens

My Toaster by Daniel Cockrill

To the Spider in the Crevice Behind the Toilet Door by Janet Sutherland

Aardvark by Christopher Reid

Soup Moments by Ian McMillan

Thin Soup by Brian Patten

Friday Mornings by Alison Brackenbury

Vanilla Pavements by Janet Philo

A Doll, an Orange and a Handkerchief by Christopher Reid

Wind by Rob Auton

Adila’s Apple by Choman Hardi

The Stolen Orange by Brian Patten

Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird

Crab-apples by Imtiaz Dharker

Rice by George Szirtes

Indian Cooking by Moniza Alvi

Praise Poem for Yorkshire Puddings by Ian McMillan

The Potatoes my Dad Cooks by Joanne Limburg

Gina’s Gravy by Daniel Cockrill

The Sprout’s Wish-List by Catherine Smith

Farmer’s Poem by Beryl the Feral

Fasting by Choman Hardi

Water by Peter Hunter

I Like Eating in the Bath by Kat François

Please Note (after William Carlos Williams) by Roger Stevens

This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams

Plump Yumberries by Salena Godden

Be Nice to the Rhubarb by Chitra Soundar

Piece of Pie by A.F. Harrold

Sweet Meadow by James Carter

An Old Man Remembers his Childhood Sweetshop by Christopher Reid

The Unknown Jelly Baby by Cat Weatherill

Fortune by Lorraine Mariner

Fruit of the Jelabi Tree, 1969 by Lucy Lepchani

Do You Ever? (after John Ashbery) by Shauna Darling Robertson

Rock Hard by Mike Barfield

Halloween’s Crumble by Joseph Coelho

Zahra’s Super Pomegranate Supper Show by Sabrina Mahfouz

Such a perfect bowl of yoghurt by Imtiaz Dharker

It’s the Middle of the Night by A.F. Harrold

Spaceship by June Melby

Hunter Gatherer by Philip Waddell

Bananaphone by Joanne Limburg

We’re Lucky by Nick Toczek

Brother and Sister by Lewis Carroll

Has Anyone Seen Harriet? by Steven Butler

The Yarn of the Nancy Bell by W.S. Gilbert

Infant Innocence by A.E. Housman

A Poem by Christopher Edge

While You’ve Been Reading This Poem by Jonathan Meres

Questions on an Empty Stomach

When’s lunch?

What’s for lunch?

If I eat lunch at four

will it still be lunch?

When I say lunch, you say dinner.

Who’s