{"product_id":"lyre-by-stuart-cooke-9781760800345","title":"Lyre","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLyre\u003c\/i\u003e is a sonic, sculptural cornucopia of new and startling forms. Stuart Cooke proposes that all kinds of life - animal, plant and otherwise - have their own modes of expression, each of which can be translated into a different kind of poetry. Ranging across Australasian oceans, coastlines, rainforests, savannahs and deserts, and similarly wide-ranging in its approach to form and lineation, \u003ci\u003eLyre\u003c\/i\u003e asks what happens when poems make contact with non-human worlds; in so doing, it welcomes whole new worlds to poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspired in part by books like Les Murray's \u003ci\u003eTranslations from the Natural World\u003c\/i\u003e and Barry Hill \u0026amp; John Wolseley's \u003ci\u003eLines for Birds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLyre\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of many years of research into a selection of Australasian flora, fauna and landforms. The collection asks what happens to poetry when it encounters more-than-human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Drawing on the deepest resources of antipodean poetics, \u003ci\u003eLyre\u003c\/i\u003e hymns the created world in all its prodigious diversity. It is funny, reverent, full of curious facts, and crazily ambitious. A triumph.' - JM Coetzee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67710272405740,"sku":"9781760800345","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781760800345-lyre-1.jpg?v=1791845035","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/lyre-by-stuart-cooke-9781760800345","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}