{"title":"Ivy Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIvy Ireland\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts enchanting tales that explore the delicate interplay between nature and human experience. Her work, including titles like \u003cem\u003eThe Owl Inside\u003c\/em\u003e, invites readers into rich, imaginative worlds where art and culture are tenderly woven into narratives full of wonder and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders seeking thoughtful stories that celebrate creativity and the natural world will find a deep resonance in Ireland’s writing. Her evocative prose and gentle storytelling make for a captivating journey through themes of connection, discovery, and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-owl-inside-by-ivy-ireland-9781925780727","title":"The Owl Inside","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Owl Inside\u003c\/i\u003e presents an often haunted and feral, sometimes confessional and domesticated enquiry into what it means to be alive in the Anthropocene. These poems are suffused with musings on the escape to outer space, secret communications between trees, the movements of birds, suburban trampolines, motherhood, midnight wanderings, the climate crisis, motorbikes, affairs, bushfires, and barbie dolls. Yet, in all this, lies a quest for what can be found just beyond the material, heading towards the numinous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout these poems, Ivy Ireland examines tendencies toward pushing together and breaking apart; from the deeply human and personal towards the more expansive and cosmic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Owl Inside\u003c\/i\u003e dictates everyday encounters with alterity, as if Jack Spicer was a single mum shacked up on the shores of Lake Macquarie, distilling a language of the alien self. Ireland's collection is a paean to pent-up frustrations and anxieties, absolved by a humble heuristics of living. Her muse: bin night. - Keri Glastonbury\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a poetry all at once sensuous, moving, strange and familiar. The language springs gazelle-like from original thought to thought as the poet pulls apart our modes of perception then finds luminous ways to put them together again. - Judy Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428301324524,"sku":"9781925780727","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925780727.jpg?v=1774497120"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ivy-ireland.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}