{"product_id":"unearthly-toys-poems-and-masks","title":"Unearthly Toys","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cbr\u003e\n               Ned Denny’s \u003cem\u003eUnearthly Toys\u003c\/em\u003e are treacherous playthings, as rigorously structured as they are thematically unsettling, a ‘rhapsody of rags gathered from several dung-hills, excrements of authors, toys and fopperies confusedly tumbled about’ (as Robert Burton dubbed his \u003cem\u003eAnatomy of Melancholy\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\n               The collection opens on a twilit, numinous world of exotic drugs, subterranean drums and visionary apprehension in which – to quote \u003cem\u003eTwin Peaks\u003c\/em\u003e, a recurrent leitmotif – ‘the woods are wondrous … but strange’. Interspersed with original poems in a variety of complex forms is a series of illuminated and darkly erotic ‘remakes’ of other poets’ work, from the Old English classic \u003cem\u003eThe Wanderer\u003c\/em\u003e to late Baudelaire via Goethe, Cavalcanti, Li Po, enigmatic troubadour lyrics, and the medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Politics are never far away: modern man’s severance from the earth, the sacred, and his own inner self has grave consequences.","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32093497557075,"sku":"","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781784105389.jpg?v=1771448463","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/unearthly-toys-poems-and-masks","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}