{"product_id":"9780807178522-looking-up","title":"Looking Up","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems, 2010–2022\u003cbr\u003eCollects more than a decade of poems by Dave Smith. These include reflections upon events, animals, and people who prove to have a salutary significance to this poet, now approaching his eightieth year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLooking Up\u003c\/i\u003e collects more than a decade of new poems by Dave Smith. These include reflections upon events, animals, and people who prove to have a salutary significance to this poet, now approaching his eightieth year. He ponders the substantial changes wrought by retirement, which brings no expectations, no obligations, no role beyond what one has left, which prompts the question, What will you do now? Both the question and its answers are the subject of \u003ci\u003eLooking Up,\u003c\/i\u003e as Smith gives us poems as acts of attention, raptures, comedies, sardonic narratives, vignettes of grief and joy whose testimony shows that love is surely our core reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55424805699958,"sku":"9780807178522","price":18.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_37782296.jpg?v=1763014392","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780807178522-looking-up","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}