{"product_id":"phantom-limb-by-david-musgrave-9780980526998","title":"Phantom Limb","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Musgrave's poems are at once meditative and restless, elegant and sensual, with an energy of empathy that draws him to a wealth of subjects. They are in several kinds of free verse and formal constraint. Here is wit and melancholy in equal measure, with a dose of joyous satire thrown in. Waterscapes and landscapes figure strongly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTypically, they move from the moment of observation to make transformative connections with emotional and imaginative states: the continual freshness of approach from one to another of these poems is a hallmark. Other poems meet human situations more immediately. The self, or some other, is substantiated with a generosity of feeling—this becomes a startling quality within the strands of satire in some poems, notably \u003cem\u003eThe Baby Boomers\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGenerosity also drives—as much as an elegant form does—\u003cem\u003eYoung Montaigne Goes Riding\u003c\/em\u003e. Those two extended poems are peaks in a book of exuberant curiosity. \u003cem\u003ePhantom Limb\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the 2010 Grace Leven Prize, along with LK Holt's \u003cem\u003ePatience, Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e and Petra White's \u003cem\u003eThe Simplified World\u003c\/em\u003e. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Western Australian Premier's Poetry Book Award and for the John Bray Prize in the 2011 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426983166188,"sku":"9780980526998","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780980526998.jpg?v=1774767729","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/phantom-limb-by-david-musgrave-9780980526998","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}