{"product_id":"9781900564199","title":"Imperium","description":"Imperium opens with a high seriousness rare in contemporary poetry. Seven ‘sacraments’ – meditations on those moments at which the sacred can still touch our lives – are followed by nineteen sonnets dedicated to the ‘dismembered spirit’ of the poet’s father.  But the collection is dominated by the title poem, a fine successor to the historical sequences which distinguished Hilary Davies’ last collection, In a Valley of This Restless Mind.  Using a range of voices and perspectives, she creates a narrative of the Napoleonic Wars, taking us from Chatham Docks to Aboukir, from a Glamorgan foundry to Trafalgar.  Here and in the book’s final sequence, ‘Southwark’, which swings between a prehistoric ‘wattenmeer’ and the London of 1958, then back to Roman times via a wonderfully riotous Elizabethan South Bank, Davies satisfies us both emotionally and intellectually, drawing from her historical sources a rich, invigorating music.","brand":"Enitharmon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060474364144,"sku":"9781900564199","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781900564199_p0.jpg?v=1763612389","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781900564199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}