{"product_id":"9781846971228","title":"In the Becoming: Selected and New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the publication of his first collection, \u003ci\u003eRough Seas\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1987, Tom Pow has been recognized as one of Scotland's foremost contemporary poets; lyrical, celebratory and sensitive to the world around him. \u003ci\u003eIn the Becoming: Selected and New Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, draws on Pow's work over the last two decades, from \u003ci\u003eRough Seas\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) to his latest book, \u003ci\u003eDear Alice: Narratives of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), including poems from \u003ci\u003eSparks!\u003c\/i\u003e, his poetic correspondence with Diana Hendry, and \u003ci\u003eTransfusion\u003c\/i\u003e, his praise poem for Muhammad Ali and Nelson Mandela. The collection charts his ongoing poetical concerns: an exploration of landscape from the rainforest to the Arctic; an interest in how history and narrative shape our understanding of the present; and, in the new poems, a maturing engagement with those large themes that lie at the heart of Pow's poetry, namely love and death. \u003ci\u003eIn the Becoming\u003c\/i\u003e offers a timely reading of one of the finest poets of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birlinn, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060793524464,"sku":"9781846971228","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781846971228_p0.jpg?v=1763747173","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781846971228","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}