{"product_id":"9780646984469","title":"A Hunger","description":"Author: Petra White\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780646984469\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: John Leonard Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 May 2018\u003cbr\u003ePages: 148\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume opens with a full-length book of new poems by Petra White, A Hunger. Bound-in with it are her two prior books,\u003ci\u003e The Simplified World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Incoming Tide\u003c\/i\u003e. The new poems of \u003ci\u003eA Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e are as lucid as they are mysterious, crafted for the ear, and for an emotional tone that slips delicately between mischievous irony and a cut-through bleakness or joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strong theme, in parts, is depression, where White presses beyond personal response into examining darkness itself, in a fierce art that deliberately gives and asks for no indulgence. The same goes for her love poems, in a sequence that plunges into the wild contradictions and poignancy of new love, with glances to Renaissance poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary worlds - people and place - are foundation for this poetry, which is haunted by inscrutable time. Her well-known '\u003ci\u003eSouthbank\u003c\/i\u003e' from her first book is given a further turn in a new sequence, '\u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Work'\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;nbsp;- this is one of the few contemporary poets to write convincingly of office work. In all, White's poems inhabit life's fragility with a light-footed constancy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798822277278,"sku":"ADS-9780646984469","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780646984469.jpg?v=1778120193","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780646984469","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}