{"product_id":"2940150452251","title":"Convent Mermaid","description":"Rod Usher’s third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of the poems spring from his long experience as a journalist, novelist and from years of living and working in Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Les Murray has written, Rod´s poetry inspires both tears and laughter. He’s equally at home in poetic conversation with Emily Dickinson, David Bowie and Federico Garcia Lorca, in revisiting Cro-Magnon Man, or portraying the to-and-fro of love and sex.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis poems find their feet in Australia, Spain, England and the U.S., their rhyme typically embedded rather than obligatory, though he bows to the tight rules of haiku.","brand":"IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168856457456,"sku":"2940150452251","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150452251_p0.jpg?v=1763753665","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150452251","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}