{"product_id":"simplified-world-by-petra-white-9780980526981","title":"Simplified World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike Petra White's applauded first collection, her second begins and ends with a fable of the uncanny ordinary. Between is a cornucopia of odes: epistolary, philosophical, elegiac. These poems think through and honour the normal mysteries of fate. Her world is large and contemporary, anchored by a young poet's own memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhite inhabits her poems lightly, using personal experience with wit and without self-pleading. Some of this work shows the shadow of depression: not so much expressing moods as touching on how depression dwells, finding its register so it can speak. A number of poems openly engage with notable depressives of literary history, but we don't need those homages to realise that this poet is a very capacious reader. It is there in her music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLate Lowell and Bishop, along with Harwood, ghost the swift edge in her language. Beyond these, a large tradition of cadences and tropes is absorbed in her fluent free verse lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Simplified World\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the 2010 Grace Leven Prize, along with LK Holt's \u003cem\u003ePatience, Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e and David Musgrave's \u003cem\u003ePhantom Limb\u003c\/em\u003e. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Judith Wright Prize in the A.C.T Awards 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":47427832676588,"sku":"9780980526981","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780980526981.jpg?v=1774767288","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/simplified-world-by-petra-white-9780980526981","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}