{"product_id":"9781869848088","title":"A Last Look","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman, a teacher and in publishing. His Collected Poems and Translations (Carcanet Press) appeared in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘...quietly determined and original...for more than 30 years he has pursued the question of landscape, how it might be lived in and worked in, recorded and celebrated.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Wells inherits a faith in a poem as a thing in itself, that has value in a real world as well as an idyllic one’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Tom Payne, Times Literary Supplement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pamphlet contains fifteen new poems. From the coins of Greek antiquity to a group of young folk with a laptop via the Mediterranean and Exmoor, the poet gives us objects, lives and places of interest: occasions of insight into the partly chosen, partly given, worlds of his and others’ energetic existences. The poems in A Last Look are artefacts made with loving exactitude in the personal workshop of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mica Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043562963184,"sku":"9781869848088","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781869848088_p0.jpg?v=1763601832","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781869848088","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}