{"product_id":"i-love-poetry-by-michael-farrell-9781925336559","title":"I Love Poetry","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Farrell is the most adventurous and experimental of contemporary Australian poets, continually pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do. Highly regarded for the playful rhythms and comic, gestural qualities of his poetry, his poems set language, syntax, and punctuation in motion. His eye for metaphor and the unexpected combination, for punning and the letter in both its verbal and visual aspects, gives his poetry its unique humour and energy. In poems like 'AC\/DC As First Emu Prime Minister', 'Sheep, Golden Syrup, Elizabeth Bishop', and 'Cate Blanchett And The Difficult Poem', \u003ci\u003eI Love Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e scrambles a landscape of colloquial and obscure images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Farrell's collections include \u003ci\u003eliving at the z\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eode ode\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eAge\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Book of the Year Award), \u003ci\u003eBREAK ME OUCH\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ea raiders guide\u003c\/i\u003e (published by Giramondo in 2008), \u003ci\u003ethempark\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ethou sand\u003c\/i\u003e. His second collection with Giramondo, \u003ci\u003eOpen Sesame\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award for Poetry. \u003ci\u003eCocky's Joy\u003c\/i\u003e (Giramondo 2015) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. He was the winner of the 2012 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. He is the author of a work of literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eWriting Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47647699468524,"sku":"9781925336559","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7cb0cd4faedfb1949c0f5599001df79d.jpg?v=1779235224","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/i-love-poetry-by-michael-farrell-9781925336559","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}