{"product_id":"far-flung","title":"Far-Flung","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFar-Flung\u003c\/em\u003e traverses multiple terrains – home and upheaval, our connection to the environment and to people, our relation to the past, place and placelessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eFrom ‘the Kilmog slumping seaward’ to ‘the bracts and the berries and the leaves’ of the Mackenzie country; the moth (‘courier of bloom powder’); the wind that grows like an animal and ‘the great loneliness \/ of grass’ – Gallagher is in conversation with the natural world. Her lyric poems, marked by attentiveness, have an earthy, intuitive music and a linguistic clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eGallagher moves easily from the ecological and personal concerns of contemporary life to the nineteenth-century Irish migrants and the historic legacy of the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. The multi-voiced, dramatic sequence ‘Seacliff Epistles’ draws on a rich variety of poetic forms: from lyric to prose poem, parable to riddle, monologue and letter poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eBill Manhire called Rhian Gallagher’s poetry ‘one of the quiet, astonishing secrets of New Zealand writing’. \u003cem\u003eFar-Flung \u003c\/em\u003esees the poet’s lyric exploration broaden considerably in an assured new work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66233636225373,"sku":null,"price":12.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781869409111.jpg?v=1792208457","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/far-flung","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}