{"product_id":"9781915048301-pomonas-orchard","title":"Pomona's Orchard","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePomona’s Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e, Adrian Blamires’ third collection, is dedicated to the arts of peace. Its tutelary spirits include Caliban tending to the dying Prospero, a great-aunt rescuing cats and dogs in the Blitz, and Pomona, Roman goddess of fruitful propagation, as the genius loci of a Herefordshire orchard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePomona’s Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e, Adrian Blamires’ third collection, is dedicated to the arts of peace. Its tutelary spirits include Caliban tending to the dying Prospero, a great-aunt rescuing cats and dogs in the Blitz, the enlightened schoolmaster to an orphaned John Keats, and Pomona, Roman goddess of fruitful propagation, as the genius loci of a Herefordshire orchard. Miracles of love and healing are conjured in the face of violence and rapacity. Lament and dissent are sounded, alongside poems of witty, sensual profusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes with a Tudor-themed sequence which presents pressing encounters – highly politicized, highly eroticized – between the Virgin Queen and her subjects. Drawing on Elizabethan lyric, symbolism, realia and innuendo, the poet offers a tragicomic vision of queen and country, a resonant blend of history and myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57670467551606,"sku":"9781915048301","price":11.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40834877.jpg?v=1776476571","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781915048301-pomonas-orchard","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}