{"product_id":"under-the-keel-9781770892699","title":"Under the Keel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eGalore\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichael Crummey's first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland mining town; total immersion baptism; the grand machinery of decay; migrant music and invisible crowns and mortifying engagements with babysitters; the transcendent properties of home brew. Whether charting the merciless complications of childhood, or the unpredictable consolations of middle age, these are poems of magic and ruin. \u003cem\u003eUnder the Keel\u003c\/em\u003e affirms Crummey's place as one of our necessary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Crummey: Michael Crummey is the author of four books of poetry, and a book of short stories, \u003ci\u003eFlesh and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eRiver Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the Giller Prize, his second, \u003ci\u003eThe Wreckage\u003c\/i\u003e, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent novel, the bestselling \u003ci\u003eGalore\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. \u003ci\u003eUnder the Keel\u003c\/i\u003e is his first collection in a decade. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764122386706,"sku":"9781770892699","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a6df501b-b2e2-4331-be4c-000d5d0b538d.jpg?v=1764756930","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/under-the-keel-9781770892699","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}