{"product_id":"9781446444948","title":"A Smell Of Fish","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe poems in\u003ci\u003e A Smell of Fish\u003c\/i\u003e connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea sequence set on the Suffolk coast, and - long overdue - Matthew Sweeney's own version of the old Irish poem where his namesake is turned into a bird.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, his seventh collection, we are back in a world where all explanations are withheld. 'If Beckett and Kafka come to mind', as Sean O'Brien wrote in his essay on Sweeney in\u003ci\u003e The Deregulated Muse\u003c\/i\u003e, 'they are not simply influences but kindred imaginations'. So we encounter a valley mysteriously filling with the smell of fish, second-world-war planes reappearing over London, a secret attic mural of a naked ex-lover, a cosmonaut abandoned on the moon, and a subterranean tunnel that runs the length of Ireland. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the subject, we are in the confident hands of one of the most imaginatively gifted poets now writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143185383664,"sku":"9781446444948","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781446444948_p0.jpg?v=1763817010","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781446444948","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}