{"product_id":"brush-by-joanne-burns-9781922146717","title":"Brush","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title of Joanne Burns' new collection \u003cem\u003eBrush\u003c\/em\u003e highlights the reader's first experience of a poem, its initial electricity; and the way the poem offers a surface of words that proceeds to reveal their possibilities or intentions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe central sequence 'road' is an animated display of the fashions of being in contemporary life—these poems are cheeky, playful, mercurial, surreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen there is the sequence called 'bluff', which excoriates twenty-first century financial culture with bite, hilarity and a sense of the absurd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a section devoted to personal memoir, including a five-part poem featuring Bondi beach, and a suite of memory fragments depicting twentieth-century modes of travel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe final group of poems, 'wooing the owl (or the great sleep forward)', explores the night, sleep and dreams, with their strange tones and surprising perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are 80 poems in the collection, most of them short, stressing the compressed pleasure that only poetry can offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383591125228,"sku":"9781922146717","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9878293482872.jpg?v=1773376878","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/brush-by-joanne-burns-9781922146717","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}