{"product_id":"9780571289127","title":"Out There","description":"\u003cp\u003eJamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out  there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space),  ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus, or the perils of  medieval travel, or listening for the speech of alien landscapes. Closer  to home, the poems adopt an outsiderish stance as they ponder the  business of non-belonging and draw up wry inventories of marginality -  finding room for those whom history has forgotten (the inhabitants of a  drowned valley in Wales) or equally for the outcasts of natural history  (the northern bald ibis, the hyena, the moa), whose skeleons are 'cairns  to their own extinction'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the poems themselves are vivid  and stubbornly realised individuals: they take short views, make canny  distinctions and tread carefully. Invoking paintings and artefacts and  facades, they also add to an ongoing portrait of the artist - caught for  example amidst the patiently-observed flotsam of a repeatedly flooding  house -which becomes more finely drawn with each of Jamie McKendrick's  collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123744817392,"sku":"9780571289127","price":13.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571289127_p0.jpg?v=1763719208","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571289127","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}