{"product_id":"tackling-the-hens-1","title":"Tackling The Hens","description":"\u003cp\u003eHens can be fun visitors, when they gossip and sunbathe and pop inside for a chat, but they can outstay their welcome and tackling them to send them home isn’t easy. They aren’t the only creatures in the pages of this book— there’s Ursula the golden-eyed cat, a leporine emperor, singing mice and all the swallows! Then there are the people who interact with them: an entomologist in love with the spiders he observes, a builder who releases a trapped mouse, a woman who attracts bees as a flower does—and Mary and the hens, of course.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd there’s more to tackle: the steepness of Devon Street, unpicking a cardigan, the loss of a mother. Here are poems that are busy in the world, telling people’s stories, crunching words between their teeth. They remind us at every turn that life is many things at once: long and short, difficult and brilliant, sad and joyful—and, like the hens, all we can do is truck on.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Tackling the Hens","offer_id":44797911171269,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/9781988595948.jpg?v=1751848152","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/tackling-the-hens-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}