{"product_id":"ten-thousand-nights","title":"Ten Thousand Nights","description":"\u003cp style=\"line-height: 120%;\" class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Baskerville',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTen Thousand Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, Auckland writer Yvette Thomas talks us through her world. She records the fluty praise of kōkako, the hiss of cats fighting on a roof, a mother’s song in Tagalog. She listens intently to the damaged, turning, murmuring earth—and doesn’t flinch, even \u003ci\u003ewhen there was nothing to say \/ but everyone was talking.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Baskerville',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Baskerville; mso-bidi-font-family: Baskerville;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 120%;\" class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Baskerville',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Baskerville; mso-bidi-font-family: Baskerville;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 120%;\" class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Baskerville',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThis is a collection of hilarious love poems, gentle lyrics, raging polemics, blocky prose poems, laments and memorials, but also tyre-swinging poems, cloud poems, pepper-black night poems and neighbourly poems. Like a prickly creature curled up small, the poet looks death and worry in the face, tallies up her remaining days, and writes it all down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Baskerville',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Baskerville; mso-bidi-font-family: Baskerville;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 120%;\" class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Baskerville',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Baskerville; mso-bidi-font-family: Baskerville;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 120%;\" class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Baskerville',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eTen Thousand Nights\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Baskerville',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\" lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e is a light-stepping, hard-hitting, immensely appealing collection by the winner of the Caselberg International Poetry Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Baskerville',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Baskerville; mso-bidi-font-family: Baskerville;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Ten Thousand Nights","offer_id":44664694571205,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/TenThousandNights.jpg?v=1745894049","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/ten-thousand-nights","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}