{"product_id":"9781780378220-scenes-from-a-long-sleep","title":"Scenes from a Long Sleep","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew \u0026amp; Collected Poems: expanded edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished to celebrate his 80th birthday in 2026, this expanded edition of Peter Didsbury’s \u003cem\u003eScenes from a Long Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (2003) includes a later collection, \u003cem\u003eA Fire Shared\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), as well as new, previously uncollected poems. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A sense of adventure hardly to be paralleled in contemporary poetry’ – \u003cem\u003eLondon Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished to celebrate his 80th birthday, this expanded edition of Peter Didsbury’s \u003cem\u003eScenes from a Long Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e (2003) includes a later collection, \u003cem\u003eA Fire Shared\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), as well as new, previously uncollected poems. Didsbury’s staggering powers of invention, outrageous flouting of convention and subversive humour are fully and flagrantly displayed in this new collected edition of the poetry of this ‘secular mystic with the lugubrious tongue’ (\u003cem\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e). All the poems from \u003cem\u003eThe Butchers of Hull\u003c\/em\u003e (1982), \u003cem\u003eThe Classical Farm\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), \u003cem\u003eThat Old-Time Religion\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) and \u003cem\u003eA Natural History\u003c\/em\u003e (2003) are included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56729131221366,"sku":"9781780378220","price":14.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40491178_8b60f4f7-3505-45fd-82dc-e4d0d32264b7.jpg?v=1774488562","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781780378220-scenes-from-a-long-sleep","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}