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Leadbetter’s meticulously attuned lyrical poetry tells of the transformative experience of knowing, a dynamic state of being that forever alters both the knower and the known.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49538953019665,"sku":"GOR012252529","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49740937298193,"sku":"NGR9781913437039","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1913437035.jpg?v=1751426371"},{"product_id":"fetch-book-gregory-leadbetter-9781911027096","title":"The Fetch","description":"Gregory Leadbetter’s first full collection of poems, The Fetch, brings together poems that reach through language to the mystery of our being, giving voice to silence and darkness, illuminating the unseen. With their own rich alchemy, these poems combine the sensuous and the numinous, the lyric and the mythic.  Ranging from invocation to elegy, from ghost poems to science fiction, Leadbetter conjures and quickens the wild and the weird. His poems bring to life a theatre of awakenings and apprehensions, of births and becoming, of the natural and the transnatural, where life and death meet. Powerful, imaginative, and precisely realised, The Fetch is also poignant and humane – animated by love, alive with the forces of renewal.  ‘The Fetch is a terrific, precise and dazzling collection. The whole book exemplifies a poetry of being that shows what is possible when we allow ourselves to be fully human in our perception and poetry.’ – David Morley","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49584147530001,"sku":"GOR007821126","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51612745498897,"sku":"GOR011800811","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52617971532049,"sku":"NLS9781911027096","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1911027093.jpg?v=1751428308"},{"product_id":"balanuve-book-gregory-leadbetter-9781913642679","title":"Balanuve","description":"\u003cp\u003eGregory Leadbetter and Phil Thomson's \u003cem\u003eBalanuve\u003c\/em\u003e is a sequence of poems about a mythical city, charting its decline to its resurrection. Leadbetter's poetry sings with the sweetly intoxicating music of Yeats and moves like a flag flapping in the wind around a ruined castle. \u003cem\u003eBalanuve\u003c\/em\u003e is a luxurious, mysterious, and voluptuous pamphlet complemented by the haunting photography of Phil Thomson. 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Responding to the intricate crisis in our relationship to our planet and the life around us, the garden here assumes a haunting, otherworldly aspect, as a space of loss, grief and trial, which nonetheless carries within it the energies of regeneration and growth. At the heart of this bewitching book is the force of language itself – at once disquieting and healing – through which we are drawn to the common roots of art, science, and magic, in exquisite poetry of incantatory power.  \"This is heavy-metal poetry, dark and decidedly theatrical.\" - Jeremy Wikeley, 'The best poetry books of 2025 so far', The Telegraph.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51627425661201,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51627425825041,"sku":"NGR9781916760240","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52152805720337,"sku":"GOR014496416","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52963820568849,"sku":"GOR014671440","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1916760244.jpg?v=1750900070"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-gregory-leadbetter.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}