{"product_id":"9781802063141-what-you-want","title":"What You Want","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'McLane is a Romantic poet out of time'  Ange Mlinko\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Passionate, erudite, sensuous . McLane probes the minutest currents of human feeling'  Sarah Howe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'My favourite living poet . [her work] bristles with life, feeling, argument'  Parul Seghal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe witty, searching new collection by National Book Award finalist Maureen N. McLane, musing on \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe sea, ageing, love and the climate crisis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her first book of poems since \u003ci\u003eWhat I'm Looking For: Selected Poems 2005-2017\u003c\/i\u003e, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura collection of perceptive poetic meditations. \u003ci\u003eWhat You Want \u003c\/i\u003eis a book of landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here are poems filled with gulls and harbours, blinking red lights and empty lobster traps, beach roses and rumoured sharks, eels and crows, wind turbines and superhighways. Sensitive, lyrical, alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and gives form to an ambient unease. From Sappho to Constable, from constellations to microplastics, \u003ci\u003eWhat You Want \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection as alive to the cosmos as it is to our moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is McLane's cloudy-sky book: a voyage through lambent autumns and shining winters, in which an eye looks out on what it longs for, what it loves, and asks: will it survive the coming heat?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40852808532065,"sku":"9781802063141","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32315414.jpg?v=1737185868","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781802063141-what-you-want","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}