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As he charts and interrogates the shifts in mood and understanding that have defined a transformative period in his own history and that of the surrounding area, he reveals a past scarred with trauma and a present lacking compass. Traversing local raves in secret valleys, to climate change and capitalism, The Paper Lantern creates a tangible, lived-in complicated rendering of a place, at the moment when the very sense of place itself is being questioned.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49523052839185,"sku":"GOR012498827","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745136910609,"sku":"NGR9781474622035","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51028294697233,"sku":"NIN9781474622035","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51876378214673,"sku":"GOR013141873","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52253520855313,"sku":"GOR014501350","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53509444337937,"sku":"GOR014952280","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1474622038.jpg?v=1770371996"},{"product_id":"paper-lantern-book-will-burns-9781474622028","title":"The Paper Lantern","description":"'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' MAX PORTER  'Hugely affecting and timely' LUKE TURNER  'A boldly struck chord, one that contains many of the dissonances, but also the harmonies, found in England today' CHRIS POWER  In THE PAPER LANTERN, a single speaker charts and interrogates the shifts in mood and understanding that have defined a surreal, transformative period in both his own history and that of the surrounding area. 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Natural Burial Ground is by turns melancholy and musical, haunting and deeply empathetic, a collection that wrestles with the scope and heft of elegy, while retaining the poet's world-weary humour and range of imagery.  There is throughout a sense of 'home' as unsettled, or unsettling - the landscapes of the Home Counties and of the Channel Islands - the very concept of islands themselves, becoming changed, haunted, in the wake of human experience.  Time seeps into the soil of Natural Burial Ground. Reckoning with profound grief, and a country rife with 'Restrictions, recriminations . . .' - the poet finds the past visible everywhere on these grounds, where places come loaded with meaning across time - the deep past of archaeology, the weight of the personal-present, the reticent, uncertain future.  In poems alive with familiar wildlife and the communities they move among - seabirds on the wing, the fishermen's daily catch - Natural Burial Ground speaks to our connections to landscapes, to family, the impact of climate change, pop music, wildlife and history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49528401559825,"sku":"GOR013707592","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49574243074321,"sku":"GOR013653685","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49749754085649,"sku":"NGR9781472158062","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52145332977937,"sku":"NLS9781472158062","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1472158067.jpg?v=1751451563"},{"product_id":"faber-new-poets-10-book-will-burns-9780571321216","title":"Faber New Poets 10","description":"Funded  by Arts Council England, Faber New Poets aims to identify and support  emerging talents at an early stage in their careers. Through a programme  of mentorship, bursary and pamphlet publication, the scheme offers four  poets a year the time, guidance and encouragement they require to help  in the development of their work in the longer term.  Will Burns  was born in London and raised in Buckinghamshire. He didn't finish his  English degree, choosing instead to start a band with his brother,  releasing two albums. He worked in factories, cleaning windows and  painting houses before settling in the music industry. He likes sports  and ornithology and is proud to be Poet-In-Residence at Caught By The  River and Festival No.6. 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