{"product_id":"9781844718375","title":"The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE.\u003c\/b\u003e Potter down to \u003ci\u003eThe Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street\u003c\/i\u003e and find a strange landscape opening up before you: the city's dishevelled edge of huts and fallen fences slides towards a sullen and uncanny countryside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElegant, intelligent, charming and accessible, these poems reinvent the pastoral for dark times. They peddle dreams and nightmares, hollow laughter, elegy and joy, and use a spectrum of forms and tones from the prosaic to the metrical, from wry cynicism to high rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet botanists, bastards, predators and prayers, the feckless and the dead, a lecherous Polish priest and Prospero as a game old bird, cigar in hand, mourning the proliferation of oiks like you. Pop in for a drink at the pub of the rural damned, dodge deranged farmers and deluded incomers, and make for the county town with its closed cinema and publicly-owned Scotch eggs. Find an eyeball in a wooden box. Discover the moral character of sand and gravel, play a quick hand of piquet and lie awake all night listening to the Dark shagging in the garden of a city terrace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street\u003c\/i\u003e are original and allusive, serious and funny. Their wit and charm plot new routes through familiar landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135856820464,"sku":"9781844718375","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844718375_p0.jpg?v=1763745087","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844718375","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}