{"product_id":"9780571327294-selected-poems","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawn from thirty years of work, this selection gathers from the best of the author's six acclaimed collections, including some translations, from 1991's debut The Sirocco Room to Out There (2012, and winner of the Hawthornden Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ink Stone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn  from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself,  gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick's six acclaimed collections,  including some translations, from 1991's debut \u003ci\u003eThe Sirocco Room\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eOut There\u003c\/i\u003e (2012, and winner of the Hawthornden Prize) by way of \u003ci\u003eThe Marble Fly \u003c\/i\u003e(1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and \u003ci\u003eInk Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2003. \u003ci\u003eSky Nails\u003c\/i\u003e,  his selected poems, was published by Faber in 2000, and selections of  his poems have been translated and published in Holland and in Italy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout,  McKendrick has been concerned with the charting of space, of the  distances between homeland and edgeland, the far-flung and the  near-at-hand, the past and present, the familiar and the strange in  poems which cast a sharp eye over their subject matter and return with  wry, unsettling observations. There is remembrance, here, and salvage, a  bringing to light of that which is obscured or lost, not only the ink  stones in Chinese riverbeds, but extinct species, spacecraft and flooded  houses, as well as historical figures, including a 10th-century  physicist from Basra, Irish activist Roger Casement, and artists Gaudi,  Höch and Piranesi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536494207350,"sku":"9780571327294","price":9.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36395361.jpg?v=1774289090","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571327294-selected-poems","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}