{"product_id":"southern-barbarians-by-john-mateer-9781920882587","title":"Southern Barbarians","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Portuguese traders who brought Europe to Japan in the sixteenth century were known as 'southern barbarians'. In his new collection \u003ci\u003eSouthern Barbarians\u003c\/i\u003e, John Mateer offers a contemporary re-charting of the Portuguese Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis empire is a fugitive one, notable for its \u003cem\u003esaudade\u003c\/em\u003e, its awareness of loss, its yearning for a world that appears only intermittently in this one, as an echo, a trace, a memory. At its heart is the figure of the poet, as migrant, tourist, \u003cem\u003edesterrado\u003c\/em\u003e. His identity is inhabited by other identities, just as the place he is in reminds him of other places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaunted by doubles and reflections, accompanied by 'spirit guides' who pass between this world and the other, he is both ghostly and connected wherever he goes, and connected precisely because of his ghostliness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461425610988,"sku":"9781920882587","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781920882587-southern-barbarians.jpg?v=1774967618","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/southern-barbarians-by-john-mateer-9781920882587","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}