{"product_id":"song-in-the-grass-by-kate-fagan-9781923106048","title":"Song in the Grass","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSong in the Grass\u003c\/i\u003e is Kate Fagan's most personal collection to date. Each of its five sequences moves out in a widening circle from where the poet is standing in life. The collection is an almanac of significant changes; in particular, new lives begun in the Blue Mountains during a transfiguring time of parenthood, against a backdrop of climate uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA precise language of environmental observation is braided into stories of family and kin networks. Careful descriptions of place anchor this collection in ecological watchfulness. Birds are sentinels to environmental change, and symbols of spiritual transformation. \u003ci\u003eSong in the Grass\u003c\/i\u003e includes over sixty different species of endemic or migratory Australian birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArchival practices of all kinds—what one poem describes as 'a lyrical index'—offer touchstones for this sonically rich collection, in which poetry becomes a way of sustaining love over distance, a collective music, and a compass for navigating in-common emergencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428115562732,"sku":"9781923106048","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781923106048.jpg?v=1774767235","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/song-in-the-grass-by-kate-fagan-9781923106048","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}