{"product_id":"9780571230839-death-of-a-naturalist","title":"Death of a Naturalist","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn its original appearance in 1966, \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Naturalist \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Cholmondeley Award, a Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland, the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn its original appearance in 1966, \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Naturalist \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Cholmondeley Award, a Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland, the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry. The full-blooded energy of these poems makes \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Naturalist\u003c\/i\u003e the best first book of poems I've read for some time.' - C.B. Cox in the \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The power and precision of his best poems are a delight, and as a first collection \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Naturalist\u003c\/i\u003e is outstanding [.] His subject is those things which are inherent or inherited. What he praises is to be praised in his own work.' - Christopher Ricks, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e'His childhood landscape has acquired the validity of myth.' Michael Longley, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, to pry into roots, to finger slime,\u003cbr\u003eTo stare big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring\u003cbr\u003eIs beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme\u003cbr\u003eTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31595139530849,"sku":"9780571230839","price":9.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36368453_6f1c2b3c-184b-40f1-9ab2-d78f89f5d6b7.jpg?v=1759443201","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571230839-death-of-a-naturalist","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}