{"product_id":"2940045601726","title":"Ella's Flight","description":"\u003cp\u003eElla was my first love - an immeasurably deep love. Too hot the eye of heaven shone, and when we split I thought the pain would never end. I sensed then that I would never again feel that same intensity, that same desperate longing - and so it proved during the nineteen years that followed: the nineteen years it took to re-build a grey-scale but contented life. I got into the habit of not thinking about her any more, and by then had other commitments to honour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen out of the blue one morning, unbidden and at odds with all other thought, came a vision of Ella: dead, lying in a coffin on some foreign shore, surrounded by strangers in mourning, and no place for me. As vivid as any memory, it tore a void in my soul; I don't know how close I came to a breakdown, but I do know that it is only through discovering poetry that I've managed to cope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd here is the record of that process (that something worthwhile and enduring should emerge from it): Ella's Flight is a collection of eighteen poems on the theme of 'first love lost'. It would mean a lot to me if you were able to connect with them...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neil Capstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072357482736,"sku":"2940045601726","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045601726_p0.jpg?v=1763977866","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045601726","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}