{"product_id":"patience-mutiny-by-lk-holt-9780980526974","title":"Patience, Mutiny","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll but four of these poems by LK Holt are fourteen-liners: free-verse sonnets if you like—certainly lyrics, but somehow massive. They have elegance, terror, surprising imaginations, humour, and extraordinarily disciplined thought. The darting variety that marked her prize-winning first collection has come to a steadier gaze in her second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA nutshell account of the book's four parts might describe a movement from familial well-being—happy-being—to a concluding psalmic sufferance, through reflections on the survival-feats of boys and men, on the self-presence of young women, and on love. That description catches her intimate touch but not her outreach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHolt's writing shows how the present doesn't escape the weight, or the light, of ancient narratives. History stands inside poems of contemporary dailiness, turning them to half-epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePatience, Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the 2010 Grace Leven Prize, along with Petra White's \u003cem\u003eThe Simplified World\u003c\/em\u003e and David Musgrave's \u003cem\u003ePhantom Limb\u003c\/em\u003e. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Judith Wright Poetry Prize in the A.C.T Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431901839596,"sku":"9780980526974","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780980526974.jpg?v=1774557095","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/patience-mutiny-by-lk-holt-9780980526974","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}