{"title":"Rebecca Perry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Perry\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts stories that delicately explore the complexities of human relationships and the subtle intersections of memory and identity. Her work often intertwines vivid character studies with richly evocative settings, inviting readers to reflect on the delicate passages of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in \u003cem\u003eGeneral Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Perry’s novels probe themes of family, loss, and renewal with a quiet poignancy. Expect narratives that balance lyrical prose with thoughtful insights, making for deeply immersive and emotionally resonant reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"stone-fruit-by-rebecca-perry-9781780375687","title":"Stone Fruit","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of three distinct parts, the poems in Rebecca Perry's \u003cem\u003eStone Fruit\u003c\/em\u003e nonetheless speak across their many common preoccupations: memory, grief, the fallibility of the physical form, our connection to and place in the world, natural and otherwise. Opening with a study of a girl in a miniature portrait, expanding into lyrical prose pieces and closing with a reflective long poem—part elegy and part reflective essay on competitive trampolining—the poems are united by a desire to pay absolute attention to both the material and inner world. The worlds within this collection appear to be teeming with life—crabs push through sand, wasps swarm on meat; and forms change—bones are replaced with metal, a human head transfigures into that of a muntjac—but there is nothing frantic in this shifting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe care taken in the poems to properly look, to focus on stillness and acts of interrogation, often gives the feeling that they are being viewed through glass, or placed in a frame. If this book could be said to have a central demand of the reader, it is to consider whether they will allow themselves to attend to the pain and joy of giving due reflection to what is happening in the world around us, in their lives and the lives of others. And what the cost of that is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStone Fruit\u003c\/em\u003e is Rebecca Perry's second collection. Her first collection, \u003cem\u003eBeauty\/Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017. It was also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461435637996,"sku":"9781780375687","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781780375687-stone-fruit.jpg?v=1774968065"},{"product_id":"may-we-feed-the-king-by-rebecca-perry-9781803513867","title":"May We Feed the King","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. A replica pie, half-eaten, perched on a small desk in the servant's quarters. A fruit bowl, filled with artificial apples, pomegranates and pears, with one piece missing. It should feel as though her subject has just left the room; the air should be alive with their energy. But in the great halls and lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King that the edges of her life begin to blur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is a reluctant ruler, rushed to the throne after the untimely deaths of his two older brothers. He has no hunger for power, and he resists the crown. But as winter turns to spring, whispers begin to fly around the court. Some say he is weak and will lead the country to ruin. Others call him a cuckhold, unable to satisfy his wife. And with the belief that the King is not fit for the throne, comes the idea that another might rule in his stead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMay We Feed the King\u003c\/i\u003e dances between a historical subject who resists the march of progress and a woman who turns to the past to hide from her present, to offer a beguiling meditation on history and storytelling: on what makes a King 'Great', and a life meaningful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47496269168876,"sku":"9781803513867","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803513867-may-we-feed-the-king.jpg?v=1775796709"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/rebecca-perry.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}