{"product_id":"9780856464225","title":"Ogre's Wife","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Howell’s first collection for several years moves in unusual directions. Guilt and society’s victimization of those it punishes are among its subjects: it begins with poems concerned with the harm caused by anorexia and moves on to investigate the situation of offenders held in units for vulnerable’ prisoners. The collection includes two longer poems: Ode to a Routine’ chronicles the odyssey of one sentenced to commute across London, while the title poem extends a theme of dubious empathy explored by Browning in \u003ci\u003eMy Last Duchess\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs always Anthony Howell’s poems are cool, intelligent, entertaining and simply different from anything else being written. The best of Ashbery’s disciples is without doubt Anthony Howell’, said Robert Nye in \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnthony Howell, born in 1945, lives in London. He has published several collections of poems, the most recent being \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Dancers in Daylight,\u003c\/i\u003e and two novels. During 2002-7 he taught creative writing in prisons.","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008544751856,"sku":"9780856464225","price":14.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780856464225_p0.jpg?v=1763837190","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780856464225","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}