{"product_id":"9781788641364","title":"Touched by Ian Marriott","description":"In the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. There is no safe haven of medical `pathology' here, but an urgent rite of passage for the damaged and conflicted soul. A form of modern Purgatory-escaping the grasping jaws of Inferno, to find itself stumbling towards a rarefied, yet earthy, Paradiso.   Ian Marriott's marvellous poems inhabit rather than observe nature - in fact they do both - but are as much concerned with the human condition. They work in the area of what Hopkins called instress. The voice is calm, contained and precise, as when he watches a Pond Skater, \"So perilous \/ this thin meniscus - \/ six legs spread out\". The poems too seem to tremble on the water of their vision.   - George Szirtes\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306876547445,"sku":"9781788641364","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788641364.jpg?v=1762802280","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781788641364","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}