{"product_id":"9781909747098","title":"The Sound Ladder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sound Ladder\u003c\/em\u003e features war stories and resurrections; Cornwall and Mexico; demonstrations and school dances; refugees and book fairs; the natural world and the surrealism of the internet; elegy, anger, and humour. And \u003cem\u003emusic\u003c\/em\u003e: these poems listen to what the rhythm section is doing beneath the surface of specific places and events, the beat a few strata down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Attwooll was a winner of the 2013 Poetry Business competition with \u003cem\u003eSurfacing\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eGround Work \u003c\/em\u003e(2014) is a poet’s calendar exploring (with the artist Andrew Walton) the topography, history and changing weather and light in a floodplain bordering Oxford and the Thames. \u003cem\u003eThe Sound Ladder\u003c\/em\u003e contains poems from these pamphlets as well as more recent work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The supercharged, over-communicative modern world in the form of spam and YouTube crackles and buzzes in several of these poems… Geographically, linguistically, thematically and stylistically this is a varied and rich collection of poems; Attwooll has a keen eye and a sharp tongue but ultimately ... a sympathetic mind’ — \u003cem\u003eSimon Armitage \u003c\/em\u003e(on\u003cem\u003e Surfacing\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'... these poems capture Attwooll’s delight in the world around him’ — \u003cem\u003eJenny Lewis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[Attwooll] balances seriousness and humour within originality of form in ways that are wholly new and are ... permanent additions to the repertoire of English poetry’ — \u003cem\u003eLaurie Smith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Rivers Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033402884336,"sku":"9781909747098","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781909747098_p0.jpg?v=1763625056","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909747098","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}