{"product_id":"mother-courage-and-her-children-book-tom-leonard-9780957574762","title":"Mother Courage and Her Children","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this new translation of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play \u003cem\u003eMutter Courage und ihre Kinder\u003c\/em\u003e by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard, the Thirty Years War becomes the War on Terror and Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking in the broad, bold Glaswegian dialect. It is a play about the language of politics and the politics of language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBest known for his early dialectic poems such as 'The Six o'clock News', Tom Leonard has woven into his translation the arguments about culture and society that have run as a thread through all his work for almost fifty years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTom Leonard\u003c\/strong\u003e's many books include a fictional biography of James Thomson and a pioneering anthology of neglected nineteenth century Scottish poetry, \u003cem\u003eRadical Renfrew\u003c\/em\u003e. His \u003cem\u003eIntimate Voices: Selected Works 1965-83 \u003c\/em\u003ewas banned from Central Region school libraries in the same year that it shared the Scottish Book of the Year Award. In 2010 his\u003cem\u003e Outside the Narrative: Poems 1965-2009\u003c\/em\u003e was the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. A collection of his literary and political criticism was recently published as \u003cem\u003eDefinite Articles: Selected Prose 1973-2012\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49562406846737,"sku":"GOR005581884","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731049685265,"sku":"NGR9780957574762","price":14.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009672642833,"sku":"NIN9780957574762","price":21.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0957574762.jpg?v=1750916048","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/mother-courage-and-her-children-book-tom-leonard-9780957574762","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}