{"product_id":"soft-keys","title":"Soft Keys","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eCorpus \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Whitbread Poetry Award, the judges described it as 'an outstanding, perfectly weighted collection that inspires meditation on the nature of the soul...reading it feels like making an exciting discovery and coming back to an acknowledged classic all at once.' Michael Symmons Roberts' first book, \u003ci\u003eSoft Keys\u003c\/i\u003e, was the original and most exciting discovery of all. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eSoft Keys\u003c\/i\u003e engage in a search for meaning and order in the everyday and in the extraordinary - a locust officer tracking swarms in an African desert, a hobbyist building a replica of the world out of matchsticks, a chance encounter with the French mystic Simone Weil playing video games in a Torquay arcade... Richly inventive, and written in a wide diversity of poetic forms, \u003ci\u003eSoft Keys\u003c\/i\u003e looks for those places and moments where the curtain between earth and heaven is thinnest; it was a powerful, arresting debut and the beginning of a remarkable career. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Les Murray said at the time: 'Like Nijinsky, he can leap into the air and stay there. You can reach up and feel the thump of the stage finely persisting in an ankle bone. Roberts is a poet for the new, chastened, unenforcing age of faith that has just dawned.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221593739608,"sku":"9780224090018","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780224090018.jpg?v=1767065419","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/soft-keys","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}