{"product_id":"9781775587712","title":"Young Country","description":"IPG - This book is a collection of poetry by 21st-century writer Kerry Hines, alongside images by 19th-century photographer William Williams. The wry, plainspoken but haunting poems sit alongside evocative photographs of settlement: landscapes, streetscapes, skyscapes; the escapades of a trio of flatmates; portraits of family and friends; burned bush and rising buildings. The book features many figures: Williams and his housemates Tom and Alex; ethnographer Elsdon Best; notorious criminals and the judges who sentenced them; the mythic creature Shellycoat who accompanied the Scottish settlers; wives, prostitutes, and \"hallelujah lassies\"; and visiting professor Robert Wallace, who cast an outsider view on this new society. Together, the stunning photographs and poems of \u003ci\u003eYoung Country\u003c\/i\u003e offer a meditation on how we capture the present and re-present the past, on the parallels between building a community and authoring a text, and on the possibilities that expansive fiction offers to documented truth.","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139837640944,"sku":"9781775587712","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781775587712_p0.jpg?v=1763710452","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781775587712","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}