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The eye moves left to right along with the poems' movement. Though there are stops from time to time, for problems of the unidentified, the location of waterholes, whether or not those birds are oystercatchers, for the interior of a pocket and Nijinsky jumping. Then on, maybe to the beach again. Shall We Go? is Annemarie Austin's eighth book of poetry, following her Bloodaxe retrospective, Very: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems (2008) and later collection Track (2014).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49620938064145,"sku":"GOR012511373","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49736953757969,"sku":"NGR9781780375533","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52717157155089,"sku":"NLS9781780375533","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52754648367377,"sku":"NIN9781780375533","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1780375530.jpg?v=1751248020"},{"product_id":"on-the-border-book-annemarie-austin-9781852242145","title":"On the Border","description":"Annemarie Austin's richly imaginative, unsettling poems are like paintings in which what is seen is held as it is about to happen, or as it has just happened. They evoke thresholds or border states in which (as Augustine observed) the present does not exist because it is instantly past, stepping off into other experiences, from dark into light, present into past, life into death, land into sea, from 'the beach at dusk under a squally wind'. In Snowcase a woman is buried alive for eight days in a snowdrift; in So, 'I found at the heart of each of his paintings\/ an opening left for me to enter, his air or ground\/ or water slipping backwards beneath my walking eyes.'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49621804646673,"sku":"GOR013171346","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852242140.jpg?v=1751457358"},{"product_id":"very-book-annemarie-austin-9781852247959","title":"Very","description":"Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. Annemarie Austin was born in Devon and grew up on the Somerset Levels and in Weston-super-Mare, where has lived for most of her life. 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