{"product_id":"9781923023284","title":"Southsightedness","description":"Author: Gregory Day\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781923023284\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Transit Lounge\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this deeply intimate and strikingly beautiful poetry collection, twice-shortlisted Miles Franklin Award author Gregory Day celebrates the ongoing wonders of the earth and sea while calling time on the superficial divisions we have created between ideas of nature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthsightedness\u003c\/i\u003e offers a way of being as well as seeing. It details a very direct and local world but one made universal by the poet's art. This is a world of reality \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e the imagination, a world of damaged \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e regenerating ecologies, where the poet lives surrounded by family, animals, weather, sport, tourism, and the layers of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith lyrical craft and inventive power, \u003ci\u003eSouthsightedness\u003c\/i\u003e offers deep aesthetic pleasure but in an often-down-to-earth way. In part a survey of the past as well as a navigational guide for the future, it is a vivid poetic catalogue of a 21st century cultural landscape, where all things are interconnected, including sound and sense, beauty and humour, truth and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867065372830,"sku":"ADS-9781923023284","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781923023284.jpg?v=1779429137","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781923023284","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}