{"product_id":"9781780376882","title":"Broadlands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA generous and intimate reflection on the natural and human world, \u003cspan\u003egrounded in the reedbeds, meadows and marshes of England's Norfolk Broads.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems of Matt Howard’s \u003cem\u003eBroadlands\u003c\/em\u003e are closely and thrillingly observed from real encounters, inviting us closer to the more-than-human world, its violence, fragility and wonder. Yet the human is always and all the more present; here too are poems of desire, love and grief. \u003cspan\u003eThey are poems of the field, imaginings from the conservation of habitats restored and created, working with and for all their constituent species - for we now live in times where everywhere is in some part within the gift of the habitat of the human heart and mind. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRedefining what a sense of place might mean, the lyric energy of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBroadlands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e rises from a labour committed, ‘set on this floating ground’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBroadlands \u003c\/em\u003eis Matt Howard’s second collection, following his debut\u003cem\u003e Gall \u003c\/em\u003e(2018) from \u003cem\u003eThe Rialto\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the inaugural Laurel Prize for Best First Collection andthe 2018 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry and was also shortlisted for the 2019 Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matt Howard","offers":[{"title":"Bloodaxe |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-09-13","offer_id":45663902597375,"sku":"9781780376882","price":27.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_fbb768d7-4a22-4ba0-9c00-dae6eeb51ec0.jpg?v=1717698471","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781780376882","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}