{"product_id":"9781800175150-slow-puncture","title":"Slow Puncture","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new collection by Miles Burrows, the master of humorous, oddly profound poetic ‘sketches’ and dramas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiles burrows, the master of humorous, oddly profound poetic ‘sketches’ and dramas, returns with a new book of what he calls ‘incidental verse’, written in England and abroad, concerned with sickness and ageing as drama, where clinical situations are reflected in a series of vignettes staged between reality and dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems’ characteristically mordant observations alight on subjects from a child’s death to a shaman performing a ritual ceremony for the journey between Heaven and Earth, or the image of wheelchairs pushed under a tree by the Thai carers in a poem which dwells on how ageing people pass the day in different countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurrows knows that these reminiscences are in danger of falling back on their own material’s natural comedy, like a spider continually struggling to get out of an empty bathtub as one poem’s title has it. In another poem, a moorland pony stuck fast in a bog, sinking, is rescued by a team with a jeep who attach a belt round him and lug him out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems are second thoughts, cartoons, \u003cem\u003eesprits de l’escalier\u003c\/em\u003e, sybil’s leaves, poems at a tangent, unspoken repartees. Like sketches done in a café by a person absently rubbing his thumb into some spilt coffee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56590490468726,"sku":"9781800175150","price":11.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37796088_0da29d15-6233-4189-b22e-2b10adc1f9ac.jpg?v=1763023064","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800175150-slow-puncture","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}