{"product_id":"9781800175501-selected-poems","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems and translations from two decades of writing, exploring in restless, evolving forms, the experiment of being alive in a changing and turbulent world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeontia Flynn is one of the key poets of her generation. This first selection of her work reveals how her poetry, so often pained, funny, and heartfelt, also describes a life lived in the first quarter of the twenty-first century with unmistakable freshness and vivid clarity. Flynn brings dark humour and tenderness to her characteristic subjects: childhood inheritance, the North of Ireland and its history, physical fragility, mothers and single motherhood, love and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together work from her five previous collections, this \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, in its variety of forms, registers the trajectory of a life: the awful and exhilarating experiment of existing in a turbulent world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57667490447734,"sku":"9781800175501","price":12.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41093869.jpg?v=1777518980","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800175501-selected-poems","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}