{"product_id":"9781784105389","title":"Unearthly Toys : Poems and Masks","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Denny, Ned, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 22\/02\/2018,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 88 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Carcanet Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e Published By: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarcanet Press Ltd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781784105389\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinner of the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Ned Denny's Unearthly Toys are treacherous playthings, as rigorously structured as they are thematically unsettling, a 'rhapsody of rags gathered from several dung-hills, excrements of authors, toys and fopperies confusedly tumbled about' (as Robert Burton dubbed his Anatomy of Melancholy). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe collection opens on a twilit, numinous world of exotic drugs, subterranean drums and visionary apprehension in which - to quote Twin Peaks, a recurrent leitmotif - 'the woods are wondrous... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebut strange'. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInterspersed with original poems in a variety of complex forms is a series of illuminated and darkly erotic 'remakes' of other poets' work, from the Old English classic The Wanderer to late Baudelaire via Goethe, Cavalcanti, Li Po, enigmatic troubadour lyrics, and the medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Politics are never far away: modern man's severance from the earth, the sacred, and his own inner self has grave consequences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35023043297433,"sku":"9781784105389","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781784105389.jpg?v=1594328076","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781784105389","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}