{"product_id":"joao-by-john-mateer-9781925336627","title":"Joao","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew collection from award-winning poet John Mateer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a sequence of 64 sonnets, John Mateer describes the encounters of an alter-ego, Joao, as he travels across the globe, attending festivals and readings, meeting with friends, lovers, and often-famous fellow authors. Questioning identity, melancholy in disposition, troubled by dreams and memories, Joao is also an innocent, and given to moments of illumination and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMateer is both ironic and affectionate in his treatment of this picaresque figure, creating through his sonnet sequence a narrative which is new in Australian writing, the worldwide adventures of the poet as anti-hero, one who, despite his disappointments, still believes in the power of literature to create a sense of belonging, and to invoke 'the deep mandala of meeting and friendship'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'John Mateer is a poet with a peripatetic sense of self who is fascinated by cross-cultural historical currents and transformations... his poems frequently register how history and its associated human ambitions and cruelties taint or inflect much that we know.' - \u003ci\u003eSydney Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362743501036,"sku":"9781925336627","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13691603482873.jpg?v=1772899542","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/joao-by-john-mateer-9781925336627","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}