{"product_id":"lifted","title":"Lifted","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eFirst published in 2005, \u003ci\u003eLifted\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Manhire shows not only his mature formal skills but his ability to look unflinchingly into the heart of things. He is a poet in which a sly sense of humour is coupled with a respect for whatever truths a poem can wring out of experience.\" --Billy Collins\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e These poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; then to beauty, humour, anger, gratitude, acceptance and once again to curiosity. \u003ci\u003eLifted\u003c\/i\u003e is a book by a poet writing at the height of his powers.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Lifted","offer_id":46288451698885,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-86473-509-6.jpg?v=1780024136","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/lifted","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}