{"product_id":"useful-verses","title":"Useful Verses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Osmond's debut collection \u003ci\u003eUseful Verses\u003c\/i\u003e follows in the tradition of the best nature writing, being as much about the human world as the natural, the present as the past: Osmond, a professional forager, has a deep knowledge of flora and fauna as they appear in both natural and human history, as they are depicted in both folklore and herbal - but he views them through a wholly contemporary lens. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChamomile is discussed through quantum physics, ants through social media, wood sorrel through online gambling, and mugwort through a traffic cone. In each case, Osmond offers an arresting and new perspective, and makes that hidden world that lives and breathes beside us vividly part of our own. This is a fiercely inventive, darkly witty and brilliantly observed debut from a voice unlike any other you have read before - and as far from any quaint and conservative notion of 'nature poetry' as it is possible to get.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32075266818131,"sku":"9781509824199","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781509824199_079439e2-7f03-45f7-86ce-7d228a9bcec5.jpg?v=1768015818","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/useful-verses","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}