{"product_id":"about-alone-away-9781763653030","title":"About Alone Away","description":"\u003cp\u003eMatt Hetherington is a writer, music-maker, and moderately immoderate self-moderator. He has been writing poetry for over 40 years, and his sixth collection, 'Kaleidoscopes', was published by Recent Work Press in September 2020. Current Inspirations are: raw garlic, vinyl played very loud through big black speakers, and the Corpse Pose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis new collection is 'About Alone Away' (Walleah Press, December 2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is muscular, masculine, carnal, clever and tender; these poems exhibit the false bravado and acute selfreflection of a seeker. In between quirky wordplay, there are tender moments: first childhood love, a teenage kiss, a harsher adult reality. Here is all love's contrariness: he begins with 'middle' poems, has 'ends' in the middle, and 'beginnings' at the end ... perhaps an optimistic plea for mid-life love. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eK.A Nelson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are invited to journey into \u0026amp; through vulnerability, suffocating pain, \u0026amp; a hinted-at redemption. Hetherington's language \u0026amp; imagery ricochets between the quotidian \u0026amp; the surreal \u0026amp; we inhabit the ache, absorb the oscillations of mood \u0026amp; hope, almost taste his pain 'sweet as an orgy of salt'. There's a sense of exorcism, of a scourging self-interrogation, of organising the chaos of loss, and of wrestling demons \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto submission, but also a playfulness \u0026amp; wry intelligence underpinning renewal \u0026amp; reinvention: retrieving hope, relearning trust, embracing life, resuscitating love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Summers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Walleah Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50923847581970,"sku":"9781763653030","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e77d60ea-6282-4127-aa78-ac70291a264f.jpg?v=1738962216","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/about-alone-away-9781763653030","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}