{"product_id":"floodmeadow-by-toby-martinez-de-las-rivas-9780571376438","title":"Floodmeadow","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFloodmeadow\u003c\/em\u003e draws us into a seething pastoral where lightning threatens and thunder gathers, pylons and powerlines hum, and steel-framed gates sing out into the wind. In these incantatory pieces, everything is present at once. The landscape, teetering on apocalypse, is characterised by collision and disintegration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong fragments of memory and history are meticulously journaled observations of the natural world: the moorhen who 'with exaggerated delicacy steps \/ free of the reedbeds'; the dragonfly that 'pushes itself through the armour \/ of its body' to be born. The world is populated by archangels and wild gods, the roar of military aircraft, hunting dogs caught permanently suspended in the chase and a car that veers from the road into the floodwater in which the whole collection is saturated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHuman relations are fleeting and vulnerable, appearing in the impression of a wedding or the recurring moments captured between a father and son, who make between them delicate balsawood constructions, which—as the poems do themselves—take flight in the turmoil, ecstatic one moment, plunged into darkness the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a visionary collection that invokes other times, dimensions and soundscapes to tell out some word of beauty and abundance in the here and now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596418597100,"sku":"9780571376438","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/814958d11068827a82e9991b4a560910.jpg?v=1777936502","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/floodmeadow-by-toby-martinez-de-las-rivas-9780571376438","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}