{"product_id":"9780993503542","title":"GAP YEAR","description":"\u003cp\u003eMiddlesbrough, 1966: The young new English teacher, \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Foggin\u003c\/strong\u003e, rolled into the Lower Sixth’s Eng. Lit. lesson like a Dyson* into a world of broken Hoovers. Joyce and Shelley and Gerard Manley Hopkins danced in his wake, vividly alive and slightly intoxicated. That’s how it seemed to 16 year-old \u003cstrong\u003eAndy Blackford\u003c\/strong\u003e, anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost 50 years later, they were reunited here in Staithes. Foggin was already a much-lauded poet - Blackford’s prime contribution to high culture, the TV jingle for\u003cem\u003e Um Bongo\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey resolved to write a poem each, every week for a year. The result is \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGap Year\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, a collection that has won them the SPM Publications Poetry Book prize and was published this summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPM Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50076050522352,"sku":"9780993503542","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780993503542_p0.jpg?v=1784740201","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780993503542","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}