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Instead of a Card: Ten Poems of Hope seasonal Re-inventing the Eighteenth Century fromA greeting that not only gives great pleasure but illuminates our liveslike a message in a bottle.Robert McCrum, writer and editor Ten Poems of Hope 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. We couldnt survive without hopethat light at the end of the tunnel which seems to promise this will pass when times are hard. These