{"product_id":"9781848614963","title":"What the Wolf Heard","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the opening Lighthouses section the west coast of Ireland is recast as a kind of Burroughsian Land of the Dead, with the ghost-lights from defunct lighthouses mixing with those of the automated in a sequence that slowly allows itself to be decoded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNed Kelly, given his own requiem, is found morphing in and out of a lupine-self following the destruction of the last wolf in Ireland and a period which saw the mass-banishment of many of the country’s underclasses to the new British antipodean colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther poems are suggestive of a bestiary, presenting various animals that have been damaged and reformed by their current environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA number of contemporary Irish artists are used as a sounding board, the poems following them, Alice-like, down their various rabbit-holes. Thrown into all of this mix are cameos from Harpo Marx and Mr. Punch, as well as opera-singing Alsatians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064085168368,"sku":"9781848614963","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781848614963_p0.jpg?v=1763749794","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781848614963","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}