Candy

by Dale Winslow (Editor), Erin Badough (Editor)

Candy: Poetry to Satisfy Your Sweetest Cravings, is an eclectic collection which ranges from the romantic to the taboo and from the intimate to the voyeuristic. With sensitivity, passion and at times humor, these poems capture the delights of sex, sexuality, love, lust and fantasy.

From the Introduction

“…the gratification offered by the form of erotic poetry mirrors the gratification we may gain from its content. And so, we may admire the craft that went into the making of the poem, perhaps even dissect the technique, or we may, at the other extreme, find ourselves in a Pygmalion-like state of arousal, or a Narcissus-like state of narcosis. But above all, the erotic mirror that these poets have fashioned allows us to examine ourselves, our needs and our wants, our experiences and intentions, our minds and our bodies, in all their beauty, and in their unattractive aspects as well. In short, the mirror of Eros allows us to know ourselves, in all of our humanity.”

-- Lance Strate, author of Echoes and Reflections


Reviews

“A wonderful celebration of sexual textasy."

--Robert Priest, author of Reading the Bible Backwards

“Candy is better than sweet - it's a sensuous collection of metaphoric, metaphysical, pulsing, pounding, gentle, gossamer erotic poetry.”

--Paul Levinson, author of 5 novels including The Plot to Save Socrates, and The Pixel Eye

“Candy is heated and hardened, sugary foreplay for anybody in need of some sweetness."
--Jeanette Kantzalis, novelist and musician-songwriter for A Brokeheart Pro

“In an age that hypes the erotic potential of new media, Candy is a reminder that language itself remains our principal instrument of desire. “

--Joseph W. Slade, author of Pornography in America, the three volume reference work Pornography and Sexual Representation, and Thomas Pynchon (Writers for the 70's series)

110 pages, Paperback

First published May 27, 2009

About the author

Dale Winslow is editor-in-chief and publisher at NeoPoiesis Press. She earned her B.Sc. in Wildlife Management from the University of Guelph and her B.Ed. from the University of Victoria. Dale has enjoyed life as an interpretive naturalist, wildlife and fisheries biologist, teacher, photographer, painter, editor and writer. She was co-editor of the Poetry Ring feature for ETC: A Review of General Semantics from 2008-2011. Her poetry has been published in Other Voices, ETC, General Semantics Bulletin, several anthologies, various e-zines, and she was co-editor and contributor to the poetry anthology Candy. Her first full-length poetry collection, Tinderbox, was released in 2013. Her second collection, Seeing The Experiment Changes It All, was released in 2021. Dale resides in Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Candy is better than sweet - it's a sensuous collection of metaphoric, metaphysical, pulsing, pounding, gentle, gossamer erotic poetry. So why is my favorite title "There Is Nothing Better Than Sex in the Kitchen"? Candy has something for every taste."

[Primalhawaii]

Aloha... two pieces are mine in this anthology.. I will let you judge them yourself... Four poster bed is one please find the other and let me know what you think !!! I hope one day to be able to publish an entire book of my work before I pass of old age... lol

[Neil McCrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are two pieces of mine in this book. That alone should attest to its merit, but there's a whole smorgasboard of other fine folk as well.

[José]

well it has to be the best!!! not cus i'm in it...because a lot of love, effort and talent went into it. It's compiled of truly exquisite poetry and majestic poets... great human beings.