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The book opens with the extraordinary title sequence, a corona of fifteen intertwining sonnets written for the poet’s wife on their diamond wedding anniversary. At once magisterial and delicate, they build into a moving meditation on how our selves are shaped, and deepened, by long companionship, under the growing shadow of mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking in a dizzying sweep of human time, Fuller reflects on what keeps us together and what breaks us apart. With spectacular formal dexterity and a tender awe, the poems track the hidden lives of wildflowers, birds, and other emissaries from an increasingly fragile natural world. Lyrical, irreverent, freighted with a lifetime’s understanding, the poems reach out, with the humility of an apprentice, to the precious others who share our path: ‘Can you tell \/ Me \/ Something of love?’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368145170805,"sku":"9781784746544","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784746544_e62e04a9-ab35-4c84-87f4-49b45a2168a9.jpg?v=1786025716"},{"product_id":"now-and-for-a-time","title":"Now and for a Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection. In this beautiful new collection of twenty-one poems he proves himself, once again, a true master of this art. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey take us from birth to death: from a baby's first delightful babblings, to the dignified, measured words of a man surveying his life and marriage, and looking forward into the unknown. There are moments of great joie de vivre, of pleasure in the earthy things of life; and yet, beyond, there is always a sense of a vaster, more elusive universe. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe snorting of the horses in a field in 'Dreams', the egret on the rock in 'Sentinel': these are nature's mysteries. To make sense of these, we have language and music. Celebratory, playful, reconciled to the questions that will not be answered, these poems exude a miraculous kind of peace and understanding: 'A point of closure that allows the next\/Inevitable sentence to begin'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481686450549,"sku":"9780701173517","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780701173517.jpg?v=1786089977"},{"product_id":"pebble-i","title":"Pebble \u0026 I","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the posing of the very first question in the opening poem, 'Fragment of a Victorian Dialogue', John Fuller's enquiring and elegiac new collection arrives with a sharp sense of mortality, marked by the passing of time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePebble \u0026amp; I\u003c\/i\u003e responds to its own philosophical enquiries by looking to a world of vivid colour and substance. From the sun-baked pebbles and plastic ice-cream spines that bedeck the 'The Jetsam Garden', to the swallows that nest under the eaves of a farmhouse in the Cilento Hills in 'Stop', the poems take us from inky, restless seascapes to the warmth of the Mediterranean as they examine the connections between man and 'our material cousins' in nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeductive, yet sometimes playfully absurd, Fuller plumbs the depths with his trademark light touch and deft technical skill. The natural and social worlds can be as cruel as they are thrilling but ultimately the voices in this collection are here to celebrate 'elements of the eternal \/ In the ceremony of life.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481688351093,"sku":"9780701184919","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780701184919.jpg?v=1786089979"},{"product_id":"w-h-auden-a-commentary","title":"W. H. Auden: A Commentary","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow available for the first time in paperback, John Fuller's \u003ci\u003eCommentary\u003c\/i\u003e is a compendious yet condensed reference work dealing with all of Auden's writings. For every poem, play or libretto, Fuller encapsulates the publishing history, paraphrases difficult passages, explains allusions, points out interesting variants (including material abandoned in drafts), identifies sources and influences, looks at the verse form and offers critical interpretation. Auden's formal and intellectual range challenges comparison with Eliot or Yeats, and his particular interests - psychological, anthropological, prosodic, theological, historical - lend an added resonance to the texture of his work, all of which is explored and interpreted, with exemplary lucidity, in this most essential of one-volume companions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'magnificent . . . a model of scholarly engagement that is both rigorous and readable.' 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