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Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills, lakes and rivers, poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts and gravel pits, business parks and landfill sites, taking the reader on a journey to marvel at these richly mysterious, forgotten regions in our midst. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdgelands\u003c\/i\u003e forms a critique of what we value as 'wild', and allows our allotments, railways, motorways, wasteland and water a presence in the world, and a strange beauty all of their own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223803408757,"sku":"9780099539773","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099539773_44e34c76-65af-470e-a84e-3a5954a0af41.jpg?v=1786011443"},{"product_id":"9780099581321","title":"Deaths of the Poets","description":"From Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton’s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats’ death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe post-Romantic lore of the dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture. Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in control, but poets should be melancholic, doomed and self-destructive. Is this just an illusion , or is there some essential truth behind it? What is the price of poetry?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, two contemporary poets embark on a series of journeys to the death places of poets of the past, in part as pilgrims, but also as investigators, interrogating the myth.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223896437109,"sku":"9780099581321","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099581321_b92b8b84-4533-4c4f-9d4b-04c4ee063fd8.jpg?v=1786011297"},{"product_id":"9781035068678","title":"When It Rained for a Million Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA family cohabits with a horse; three riots are tucked up safely in their beds; a tumbleweed takes up a career in comedy; the giant flag crossing a football crowd has a strange effect on those underneath; a rampaging fifty-foot poem brings terror to a city . . . As always in Paul Farley’s work, the quotidian and the cosmic are braided together in surprising, funny, or disconcerting ways. And as always, his poems inhabit and explore intermediate, uncertain spaces; a Farley poem may be filled with recognisable objects and events, but is always alert to wider resonances. \u003ci\u003eWhen It Rained for a Million Years\u003c\/i\u003e represents a new stage of development in the poet’s work, while exemplifying his unwavering faith in the music and shape of language, and in the power of metaphorical transformation in the various ways elegy, monologue and the pastoral navigate and intersect with our anxious, brittle age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Farley's strength, throughout his career, is the delicacy of his poems' music, their soft lighting and good humour, and this book is no exception' – \u003ci\u003ePoetry Book Society Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gift for making the mundane seem magical' – \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296207122805,"sku":"9781035068678","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781035068678_72780250-4163-4862-b679-d0eabd05ace3.jpg?v=1786017687"},{"product_id":"9781529009798","title":"The Mizzy","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs usual it is impossible to summarize in terms of theme, as his interests are too various: there’s an air of ‘the innocence of childhood’ being viewed through the corrective lens of worldly middle age, though, and also of mid-life, its creeping self-consciousness and decrepitude, and the distortions of perception that attend it; confusing encounters with tech, modernity and its accelerated rate of change; satirical excursions critiquing the way business and digital communications have debased language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarley is also interested as ever in the peripheral and marginal and no-man’s-lands – the lives of others, and their strange occupations; the birds and unsung-by-the-pocket-guides fauna and flora you miss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mizzy\u003c\/i\u003e encapsulates one of poetry’s most capacious and eclectic imaginations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312564187509,"sku":"9781529009798","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529009798_0b53a4c2-91e4-4584-968a-5d1a518c68dc.jpg?v=1786021991"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-paul-farley.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}