Portable Kisses

'Ideally, a reader should finish this book, then find someone to kiss' - Tess Gallagher.

'This is the best book of love poems since Neruda's' - Bill Knott.

'There are as many nuances and inflections for kisses as there are lips to kiss, ' says American poet Tess Gallagher. And so with these playful, serious and sassy poems about kisses, a whole book devoted to the kiss.

Portable Kisses is a book which kept growing. The earliest poems were published in a hand-printed limited edition called Portable Kisses in 1978. But the poems wouldn't stop, like the best of kisses, and Tess Gallagher published a new Portable Kisses in 1992, followed two years later by Portable Kisses Expanded. This first UK edition of the most travelled kisses in poetry since Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair includes all the kisses Tess Gallagher has put down on paper.

'In Portable Kisses, she convincingly provides condensed librettos of lovers' patterns of approach and retreat... It's a book filled with beauty, energy and surprise' - Ann Beattie.