{"product_id":"natural-burial-ground-by-will-burns-9781472158062","title":"Natural Burial Ground","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' Max Porter\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his beautiful, evocative new collection, \u003ci\u003eNatural Burial Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, Will Burns explores his deep interest in place and the natural world to excavate the emotional impact of grief and loss. \u003ci\u003eNatural Burial Ground\u003c\/i\u003e is by turns melancholy and musical, haunting and deeply empathetic, a collection that wrestles with the scope and heft of elegy, while retaining the poet's world-weary humour and range of imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is throughout a sense of 'home' as unsettled, or unsettling – the landscapes of the Home Counties and of the Channel Islands – the very concept of islands themselves, becoming changed, haunted, in the wake of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTime seeps into the soil of \u003ci\u003eNatural Burial Ground\u003c\/i\u003e. Reckoning with profound grief, and a country rife with 'Restrictions, recriminations . . .' – the poet finds the past visible everywhere on these grounds, where places come loaded with meaning across time – the deep past of archaeology, the weight of the personal-present, the reticent, uncertain future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn poems alive with familiar wildlife and the communities they move among – seabirds on the wing, the fishermen's daily catch – \u003ci\u003eNatural Burial Ground\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to our connections to landscapes, to family, the impact of climate change, pop music, wildlife and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597296517356,"sku":"9781472158062","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781472158062-natural-burial-ground.jpg?v=1777948904","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/natural-burial-ground-by-will-burns-9781472158062","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}