{"product_id":"9780571303137","title":"The Water Stealer by Maurice Riordan","description":"These poems report on worlds  both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble  of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether situated in the quiet lanes  of his native Co Cork or amid the bustle of his adopted London,  Riordan's poems exist between many states, poised at once in the grip of  both activity and stillness, concerned with speaking and listening to  what he hauntingly describes as 'the unwonted quiet'. There are tributes  to the departed and the living, the befriended and the estranged; there  are also conversations with poets, in memory and in translation, from  the Spanish and from the Irish. The collection concludes with 'The  Pilgrim' - that hovers eerily 'in patrol of the edges', wherever they  may be located. But just as these poems can be sage, they are also  mischievous, fun-loving, gregarious creatures who like nothing better  than to sing or to joke at your ear. The Water Stealer is a book full of invention and delight, whose hypnotic stories remind us of the variousness and the enchantment of the world.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291350708597,"sku":"9780571303137","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571303137.jpg?v=1762739293","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571303137","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}