{"product_id":"9781739440572","title":"Kitchen Hymns by Padraig O Tuama","description":"Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin.   The poems in Padraig O Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor devotion. A man asks himself if he believes in God and turns to language rather than the maker of language; an agnostic Jesus meets a curious Persephone at hell's exit; a mass for the end of the world is offered by some- one more interested in birds than in salvation. In registers of rage, eros and melody, towards nature, elegy and praise, Kitchen Hymns is a study in form and lyric address: the sights and sounds of a poem; the lungs of the world; skin touching skin; experience.   Here are poems of originality and feeling - a provocation to thought, and an invocation of the forces that direct the strange, branching paths of our lives.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54911750111605,"sku":"9781739440572","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781739440572.jpg?v=1736345774","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781739440572","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}