{"product_id":"9781784107796","title":"Smart Devices : 52 Poems from The Guardian `Poem of the Week'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Rumens, Carol, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 26\/09\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Lives and Letters,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Carcanet Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Poetry anthologies (various poets)\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781784107796\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA year of hand-picked poems and commentaries from the Guardian's 'Poem of the Week' blog. Carol Rumens has been contributing 'Poem of the Week' to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. Do the maths: that's more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a large and devoted following.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe's a poet-reader, not an academic. She is fascinated by the new, but her interest is instructed by the classic poems she has read. They make her ear demanding: when it hears that something, it perks up.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe perks up. 'A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.' Rumens partly agrees with Williams but she develops the conceit, seeing each poem 'as a more flexible instrument, a miniature neo-cortex, that super-connective, super-layered smartest device of the mammalian brain'. She tries to avoid poems built from kits with instruction manuals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe looks for surprises, and she surprises us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022498922649,"sku":"9781784107796","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781784107796.jpg?v=1602537695","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781784107796","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}