{"product_id":"driftwork-by-john-burnside-9781787336667","title":"Driftwork","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDriftwork\u003c\/em\u003e is the definitive selection of John Burnside's extraordinary and vibrant poems, from one of our greatest contemporary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together John Burnside's extraordinary and vibrant poems, taken from across decades. His work is always stirring, curious, and alert to the natural world and the people in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'It's impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside'\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cstrong\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver thirty-five years and seventeen collections, John Burnside has built a body of poetry that is consistently luminous, original, and profound. His poems are always in thrall to the glamourie – a magical, fleeting enchantment – and constantly in search of settlement, harmony, and grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis work is both intimately personal and universal, often moving through stages of vulnerability, turbulence, terror, and desire, arriving at sensitive and highly alert artistic positions. He risked much for his art and its integrity, seeking a new and unique understanding of beauty and truth, offering a fresh angle from which to view the world through nature, myth, and magic. For him, every poem was an alchemical transformation, a metamorphosis, an epiphany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Among the best writers of his generation, fully voiced and perfectly pitched'\u003c\/em\u003e – Andrew O'Hagan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A master of language'\u003c\/em\u003e – Hilary Mantel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Burnside's sharp, suturing language allows us to know the world as it is: ragged and broken, yet full of impossibly fragile beauty'\u003c\/em\u003e – Rebecca Tamas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233118105836,"sku":"9781787336667","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781787336667-driftwork-1.jpg?v=1787726237","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/driftwork-by-john-burnside-9781787336667","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}