{"product_id":"9780571327935","title":"Muscovy by Matthew Francis","description":"Like  his acclaimed Mandeville (2008), Matthew Francis's fourth Faber  collection explores a world of marvels, real and fantastic. A man takes  off for the moon in an engine drawn by geese, a poltergeist moves into a  remote Welsh village, and a party of seventeenth-century Englishmen  encounter the wonders of Russia - sledges, vodka, skating and Easter  eggs. The scientist Robert Boyle basks in the newly discovered radiance  of phosphorus (the noctiluca of the title) and the theme of light in  darkness is taken up by the more personal poems in the book: phoneboxes,  streetlamps, moonlight. The joys of the world and of the imagination  find their equivalent in Francis's joy in the possibilities of language: 'A basket of snow for the Empress \/ with a poem ofmodest triumph: \/ I made this out of what does not last.'\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201808335026,"sku":"9780571327935","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9780571327935.jpg?v=1690569988","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571327935","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}