{"product_id":"between-here-and-there-1","title":"Between Here and There","description":"In her second book of poems Sinead Morrissey's worlds grow more diverse, encompassing the Orient, the Antipodes, America and an Ireland which recent history has changed and yet not deeply, a country observed through eyes that travel and time have made clear, dispassionate and disabused.\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003eBetween Here and There \u003c\/em\u003eanswers the question where Sinead Morrissey has been since the publication of \u003cem\u003eThere Was Fire in Vancouver\u003c\/em\u003e in 1996. Back in her native Belfast after several years abroad, she has produced a long-awaited second collection strung between four continents. These poems, which constitute a radical departure from her earlier work, move between the surreal artscapes of the American South West, the effects of global warming on a lake outside Auckland, and the graves of miscarried babies in Japan, to the difficulties attendant on the peace process in Northern Ireland and the instability of the devolved Assembly. Robust, surprising and technically accomplished, \u003cem\u003eBetween Here and There\u003c\/em\u003e builds towards the critically-acclaimed Japanese sequence featured in \u003cem\u003eNew Poetries II.\u003c\/em\u003e Avoiding the better-travelled paths of the Zen \/ Haiku traditions in Western poetry, Morrissey instead explores a world of heavy industry, environmental damage, disaffected schoolchildren and a traditional village culture vibrant with raw sexual energy. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55616833487192,"sku":"9781857545586","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781857545586.jpg?v=1777990524","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/between-here-and-there-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}