{"product_id":"9781447294047","title":"The Drowned Book (Picador Classic)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by Helen Dunmore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCome for a walk down the river road,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor though you're all a long time dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe waters part to let us pass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe way we'd go on summer nights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the times we were children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd thought we were lovers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Drowned Book\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of memory, commemoration and loss, dominated by elegies for those the author has loved and admired. Sean O'Brien's exquisite collection is powerfully affecting, sad and often deeply funny; but it is also a dramatically compelling book - disquieting, even - and full of warnings. As the book unfolds, O'Brien's verse occupies an increasingly dark, subterranean territory - where the waters are rising, threatening to overwhelm and ruin the world above. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes, \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned Book\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary collection, a classic from one of the leading poets of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154865864944,"sku":"9781447294047","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781447294047_p0.jpg?v=1763833786","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781447294047","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}