{"product_id":"lyrical-ballads-1","title":"Lyrical Ballads","description":"\u003cp\u003eBill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valé ry' s definition of poetry as ' a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense' . In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend story and song, and do so using everyday words and phrases that - suddenly, on the page - become new and delightfully weird.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLyrical Ballads is a many-peopled collection: the baffled inhabitants of Every Street and Intermediate Street are here, while Dracula, T.S. Eliot and Bobby Outram from Outram have walk-on parts. The collection is anchored by two long sequences that embrace awkwardness, mystery and absurdity: ' The Tobacco Tin' , a kind of folk story riding along on its own lacunae, and ' Tell You What' , a set of curmudgeonly opinions that evoke the prejudices of a fast-vanishing world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs they notice the small collisions between wonder and everyday reality, and the trajectories of those who don' t fit easily in this world, these poems close in on the darker certainties of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Lyrical Ballads","offer_id":46473266954437,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-80017-544-0.jpg?v=1782864669","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/lyrical-ballads-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}