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The collection ends with the poet's alternative vision of the birth of the cosmos, a `disinterested machine \/ spinning its great designs of flesh and soul.'  Turner's `affecting, memorable and original' poems (TLS) were shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection with Crossing the Outskirts, and his Planet-Struck was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Desolate Market is his most ambitious and urgent work to date.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49564513894673,"sku":"GOR009621593","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784105120.jpg?v=1751059079"},{"product_id":"crossing-the-outskirts-book-julian-turner-9780856463525","title":"Crossing the Outskirts","description":"Selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in Autumn 2002, Julian Turner's outstanding debut was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49582508146961,"sku":"GOR001280167","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0856463523.jpg?v=1751265560"},{"product_id":"orphan-sites-book-julian-turner-9780856463846","title":"Orphan Sites","description":"Julian Turner's 'Crossing the Outskirts' was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize best first collection. In his second book he explores his familiar themes of identity and loss, and new, more personal ones - the way the degradation of the environment touches on his experience, the fragility of life and the ambiguous allure of death. This collection marks a development in his strong technique and gives us poems that are comic, elegiac and profound by turns.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608406991121,"sku":"GOR006498749","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0856463841.jpg?v=1751044015"},{"product_id":"planet-struck-book-julian-turner-9780856464355","title":"Planet-Struck","description":"This title is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Much of the material in Julian Turner's third collection works under malign influence, which comes most often from the hand of Man, but is also haunted by elements, spirits and other forces that seem beyond our control. This compelling book also celebrates human ingenuity and heroism in the face of such weighty opponents and laments our inclination to blame others for our misfortune and unhappiness. Time and memory, the transitory nature of human remains from the earliest man-made monuments, how nature suffers from man-made depredations, the strange states of mind that arise from extreme experience - all of these contribute to this book's rich and multi-layered insight into the human condition.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608690630929,"sku":"GOR002699544","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49645802291473,"sku":"GOR013630604","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/085646435X.jpg?v=1751430936"},{"product_id":"boston-united-book-julian-turner-9781845470852","title":"Boston United","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50242788950289,"sku":"GOR001445544","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1845470850.jpg?v=1751154582"},{"product_id":"dream-today-live-tomorrow-book-julian-turner-9780692230039","title":"Dream Today, Live Tomorrow","description":"DREAM TODAY, LIVE TOMORROW explores the journey of the soul from despair to a place of peace and renewal. 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