{"product_id":"9781787336032","title":"Dog Star","description":"Author: Roberts, Michael Symmons\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781787336032\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 May 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 80\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn inviting and poignant new poetry collection exploring our increasingly turbulent relationship with nature, from the award-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inviting and poignant new collection exploring our increasingly turbulent relationship with nature, from award-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I love Michael Symmons Roberts' poetry' Jeanette Winterson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDog Star\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of linked poems rooted in encounters with real, imagined or mythical birds, trees, fish, flowers, bacteria, chimeras - ancient connections reshaped by technological and political change and critically endangered by species and habitat loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Roberts' previous work, his poems are attentive to glimpses of grace and presence, but always embodied and grounded. In this new book, that attention is sharper and more urgent than ever, at a time when the essential spiritual relationship between humanity and other forms of life is broken or lost. In a line from his collection\u003ci\u003e Drysalter\u003c\/i\u003e - 'there is no way to the soul but through the body' - he sets out the bearings for these new poems as attempts to tap into what D.H. Lawrence called 'heaven's wolfish, wandering electricity.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome encounters in \u003ci\u003eDog Star\u003c\/i\u003e are head-on, face-to-face, some are more slant, distant, missed connections. There's an elegiac sequence for the poet's mother with each step measured in animals, an extended riff on the world as an aquarium and our lives seen through water - creatures dead and living, met in the flesh or mediated \u003ci\u003evia\u003c\/i\u003e film or stories. This is a profound, remarkable book by one of our major poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The clearest and purest voice currently sounding in British poetry' Carol Ann Duffy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An outstanding writer' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47792973807774,"sku":"UBD-9781787336032","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781787336032.jpg?v=1780915648","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781787336032","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}