{"product_id":"9780571327393","title":"Nights in the Iron Hotel by Michael Hofmann","description":"Michael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain. Nights in the Iron Hotel,  which won the author a Cholmondeley Award in 1984, is his first  full-length volume. Hofmann's poems are marked by a classical authority,  a formidable ironic intelligence, wide-ranging subject matter and a  unique tone of voice. 'You move the fifty-seven muscles it takes to  smile,' Hofmann writes in a poem whose subject is sexual tension - and  immediately the reader recognises a world in which emotions are not the  usual poetic counters but something truer, more complex and more  painful. This quality of disenchantment is served by a deceptively  laconic style of measured brio.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291425550709,"sku":"9780571327393","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571327393.jpg?v=1762739784","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571327393","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}