{"product_id":"9781784746032","title":"Afterburn","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Lucid, tender and humane . . . One of the most formally agile and compassionate poets of our age' Fiona Benson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere you are, on the balcony,\n\u003cbr\u003ethe sea serenading you,\n\u003cbr\u003ethe sun with its armful of light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Afterburn, Blake Morrison returns to poetry, his first calling, to offers scenes from his own life and the lives of others. In psychology, 'afterburn' refers to the time before a past event is assimilated - an idea that resonates through these poems (which themselves linger after reading) about memory and our attempts to articulate, shape or contain it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the collection, not least in two extraordinary sequences - one about his sister, the other about Elizabeth Bishop - the poet sees with new eyes the turning points in a life's accidental course. What holds his wise, touching, melancholy yet joyful poems together are the small intimacies that bind us to others, under time's lengthening shadow: 'you moved too fast for me to catch you \/ and so did the years.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlayful and charming, sometimes rakishly so, Afterburn nevertheless reveals an open, and vulnerable, heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Distils the insights of a seasoned memoirist into images that linger long after the final page' Julia Copus\n\u003cbr\u003e'A master of the sonnet . . . I'm taking Afterburn to my desert island' Hugo Williams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chatto \u0026 Windus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48870944997611,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":45.76,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781784746032-1.jpg?v=1781703044","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781784746032","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}