The Smoker's Year Book

This charming month-by-month collection pairs witty verse with a devoted smoker’s view of the changing year. From January’s memories and February’s lovesick appeal to Saint Nicotine, each poem turns ordinary seasons, holidays, and weather into playful occasions for lighting a pipe. March winds threaten matches, April brings romantic exasperation, and the warmth of May and June is measured in fragrant clouds.

As the year moves through fireworks, summer dreams, autumn mists, and winter’s return, smoking becomes both comic ritual and source of comfort. The poems blend light satire, literary allusions, seasonal imagery, and a touch of wistful reflection, finding companionship in briars, cigars, church-warden pipes, and October brew. Listeners can dip in a month at a time or enjoy the full circular journey, where each short piece offers a breezy snapshot of its season and a fondly old-fashioned celebration of leisure, memory, and smoke.