{"product_id":"9781877372056","title":"Fire-Penny","description":"\u003cbr\u003eSnapshot reconstructions of life on Scotland's remote St Kilda island - ancestral home of the McQueens - open this tenth collection of poetry from Cilla McQueen. The spare life in this place of birds and sea and weather leads into a new set of poems from the poet's Bluff home, quiet observations on friends and animals, memories and dreams, and weather. Many of the reflective poems are conversational in style; one poem is written in the form of a play, and another appears at first to be a dictionary definition. Even the simplest of topics, such as eating cake or meeting a newborn baby, are taken by McQueen and transformed into thoughtful works. The collection closes with a section entitled A Widow's Songs, in which the poet mourns her late partner.","brand":"Otago University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048395129072,"sku":"9781877372056","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781877372056_p0.jpg?v=1763602975","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781877372056","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}