{"title":"Bill Manhire","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"lyrical-ballads-by-bill-manhire-9781776923021","title":"Lyrical Ballads","description":"\u003cp\u003eBill Manhire has always subscribed\nto Paul Valery's definition of poetry as 'a prolonged hesitation between sound\nand sense'. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection\nblend story and song, and do so using everyday words and phrases that -\nsuddenly, on the page - become new and delightfully weird.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a many-peopled collection:\nthe baffled inhabitants of Every Street and Intermediate Street are here, while\nDracula, T.S. Eliot and Bobby Outram from Outram have walk-on parts. The\ncollection is anchored by two long sequences that embrace awkwardness, mystery\nand absurdity: 'The Tobacco Tin', a\nkind of folk story riding along on its own lacunae, and 'Tell You What', a set of curmudgeonly\nopinions that evoke the prejudices of a fast-vanishing world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs they notice the small\ncollisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those\nwho don't fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker\ncertainties of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upstart Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264420462828,"sku":"9781776923021","price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781776923021.webp?v=1769731827"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/bill-manhire.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}