{"title":"A. Frances Johnson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA. Frances Johnson\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of contemporary themes through a unique lens that blends creativity and critical insight. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eControlled Burn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSave As\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the intersections of art, culture, and human experience with a thoughtful and engaging voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect narratives that challenge and inspire, combining rich cultural context with nuanced storytelling. Johnson's writing invites reflection on the ways our lives intertwine with broader artistic and societal currents.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"controlled-burn-by-a-frances-johnson-9781923099708","title":"Controlled Burn","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eControlled Burn\u003c\/em\u003e is an antipastoral collection with a difference. Poems closely and compassionately situate woman at the centre of interconnected legacies of colonial, economic, domestic, and military violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eImages of fire, heat, and ecological degradation thread through free-verse, localist poems such as 'The Woman Who Ran the Farm', 'Aqua Nullius', and 'Petroleum', chronicling devastating impacts. Elsewhere, poems such as 'Painted Weather' and the ekphrastic villanelle 'The Hay Wain's Cry', foreground disconnects between high culture and climate change activism. Institutional art brings solace but may be a lame raft, clung to at our peril.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is rounded off by poems offering blistering satires of a techno-feudalist world; metapoetic poems such as 'Password' and 'The Sentence' portray the slow violence of online fora and erosions of the rule of law, which differently undermine what it means to be human on a shared planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this visionary collection, A. Frances Johnson's cautionary threnodies muse on environmental depletion, colonial dispossession, and personal loss. These poems deftly criticise enduring theme-park notions of the natural in spheres poetic, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362542010604,"sku":"9781923099708","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4940cdea64c727f96adc76c27ffd9e71.jpg?v=1772935336"},{"product_id":"save-as-by-a-frances-johnson-9781922571106","title":"Save As","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMartin Johnston wrote, 'If out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry, what do we make of our quarrels with Canberra?' \u003cem\u003eSave As\u003c\/em\u003e works to see these things together: memoir, elegy, politics, and a feeling for earth. Its poems are everywhere complicated—doubled back on themselves—by A. Frances Johnson's excoriating awareness of how 'poetic' language is complicit in the commodification of place: using 'landscape' to furnish a poem with picturesque imagery; with the promise of some lasting beautiful elsewhere—'mea culpa's last egotism: lazy planetary leave-taking'. This is a principled, truthful, fiercely intelligent collection. — Lisa Gorton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn poetry lucid and compelling, \u003cem\u003eSave As\u003c\/em\u003e bears clear-eyed witness to the warfare waged against the planet by the captains and footsoldiers of industry. A record of environmental degradation, a tally of mounting human debts, and a catalogue of ghosts, both familial and communal, this collection is an uncompromising vision of our contemporary moment, and a moving elegy for what has been lost, and what is being lost—devastatingly, irretrievably—in the calamitous present. — Bella Li\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427737583852,"sku":"9781922571106","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922571106.jpg?v=1774767365"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/a-frances-johnson.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}