{"title":"John Wilkinson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Wilkinson\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intricate connections between nature, art, and culture in his writing. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eGhost Nets\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into environmental themes with a poetic sensibility, blending vivid imagery and thoughtful reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a profound engagement with contemporary issues surrounding landscape and ecology, presented through evocative prose that challenges and inspires. Wilkinson’s thoughtful narratives offer a unique perspective on the ways humans interact with the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ghost-nets-by-john-wilkinson-9781632430267","title":"Ghost Nets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGhost Nets\u003c\/em\u003e is the first US collection by John Wilkinson. Ranging from brief lyrics to elaborately structured long poems, the collection displays the intense musicality, syntactical intricacy, and affective power characteristic of his poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe political, social, and economic crises of the period in the US shape Wilkinson's writing in new ways, making it more vulnerable and more evidently responsive to others' vulnerability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602975965420,"sku":"9781632430267","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632430267-ghost-nets.jpg?v=1778051153"},{"product_id":"reckitts-blue-by-john-wilkinson-9780857420923","title":"Reckitt's Blue","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn iconic work of Western art, Fragonard’s \u003ci\u003eL’escarpolette,\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eThe Swing,\u003c\/i\u003e is often reproduced, and its famous foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper mid-swing is widely familiar. In \u003ci\u003eReckitt’s Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, John Wilkinson explores that well-known scene in a sequence of poems that engages with the image of the flying slipper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough born out of visual encounters with art, the title poem of this book also examines artefacts that evoke a violent encounter, weaponry, and domestic and ritual objects from the Jolika collection of Papua New Guinean materials in San Francisco's de Young Museum. It is here that Wilkinson’s concentrated lines evidence what the critic Simon Jarvis has called Wilkinson’s “unfree verse,” reaching into new and unexpected territory in both style and theme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis combination of sensual beauty, intellectual ambition, and political acuity is like nothing else in contemporary English-language poetry. The ‘Tornada’ that separates and stitches together these sequences meditates on fire, clay and glaze, on violence and reflective stillness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“John Wilkinson's taut, precise poems, in which lyric grace and ethical urgency move together but never comfortably mix, amount to one of the most significant bodies of work in contemporary poetry.” —Patrick McGuinness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47603108380908,"sku":"9780857420923","price":28.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780857420923-reckitt-s-blue.jpg?v=1778055543"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/john-wilkinson.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}