{"product_id":"afterburn-book-blake-morrison-9781784746032","title":"Afterburn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lucid, tender and humane . . . One of the most formally agile and compassionate poets of our age’ Fiona Benson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere you are, on the balcony,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe sea serenading you,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe sun with its armful of light.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfterburn\u003c\/i\u003e, Blake Morrison returns to poetry, his first calling, to offers scenes from his own life and the lives of others. In psychology, 'afterburn' refers to the time before a past event is assimilated – an idea that resonates through these poems (which themselves linger after reading) about memory and our attempts to articulate, shape or contain it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout the collection, not least in two extraordinary sequences – one about his sister, the other about Elizabeth Bishop – the poet sees with new eyes the turning points in a life's accidental course. What holds his wise, touching, melancholy yet joyful poems together are the small intimacies that bind us to others, under time’s lengthening shadow: ‘you moved too fast for me to catch you \/ and so did the years.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlayful and charming, sometimes rakishly so, \u003ci\u003eAfterburn\u003c\/i\u003e nevertheless reveals an open, and vulnerable, heart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Distils the insights of a seasoned memoirist into images that linger long after the final page' Julia Copus\u003cbr\u003e'A master of the sonnet . . . I’m taking \u003ci\u003eAfterburn\u003c\/i\u003e to my desert island' Hugo Williams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52323580674321,"sku":"NGR9781784746032","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53202834489617,"sku":"GOR014805389","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53203958923537,"sku":"GOR014806208","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53339956314385,"sku":"GOR014859908","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53583927312657,"sku":"NIN9781784746032","price":22.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781784746032.jpg?v=1786615403","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/afterburn-book-blake-morrison-9781784746032","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}