{"product_id":"9780571260287","title":"The Casual Perfect by Lavinia Greenlaw","description":"If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection  tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the  road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to  describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the book's presiding spirits, with  her insistence on the provisional, on the moment in which perception is  formed, on landscape as action rather than description. The Casual  Perfect continues Lavinia Greenlaw's explorations of light and the  borders of vision, which include a journey to the four corners of  Britain to observe the solstices and equinoxes, and a cycle about the  East Anglian landscape which is nine-tenths sky. Questions of travel  hover around many of these poems, or questions which need to be  'travelled fully' rather than answered -- and which involve the  overheard and the glimpsed, what is gleaned from traces and external  signs. The result is a collection that is under-stated, spare but  inclusive, which invites our presence as readers.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292133405045,"sku":"9780571260287","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571260287.jpg?v=1762745768","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571260287","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}