{"product_id":"9781784746544","title":"Marston Meadows","description":"Author:\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784746544\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Dec 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the prizewinning poet, a tender, nostalgic and dryly witty collection that celebrates the companionship of marriage, the small joys of growing old, and the ever-illuminating beauty of the English countryside\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA walk is like a knot that gets undone,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd yet it keeps us closer. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMarston Meadows\u003c\/i\u003e, John Fuller celebrates the rewards of a life lived in rich attentiveness to the world. The book opens with the extraordinary title sequence, a corona of fifteen intertwining sonnets written for the poet's wife on their diamond wedding anniversary. At once magisterial and delicate, they build into a moving meditation on how our selves are shaped, and deepened, by long companionship, under the growing shadow of mortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking in a dizzying sweep of human time, Fuller reflects on what keeps us together and what breaks us apart. With spectacular formal dexterity and a tender awe, the poems track the hidden lives of wildflowers, birds, and other emissaries from an increasingly fragile natural world. Lyrical, irreverent, freighted with a lifetime's understanding, the poems reach out, with the humility of an apprentice, to the precious others who share our path- 'Can you tell \/ Me \/ Something of love?'","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46729862414494,"sku":"UBD-9781784746544","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781784746544.jpg?v=1776651355","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781784746544","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}