{"product_id":"wild-bees-new-and-selected-poems-9781848610088","title":"Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eSubtle and sharply lyrical, these poems shimmer on the eye while being deeply held at the back of the mind. Martin Harrison has been described as a writer whose poetry is a meeting place between the immensity, and intensity, of the Australian environment and the hi-tech world of everyday life. Collected here is the poet's own re-casting of his work since the early 1990s, setting accomplished poems from earlier books in the company of recent poems and prose poems. Martin Harrison's \u003cem\u003eWild Bees: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e marks a place of arrival and a new departure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWild Bees\u003c\/em\u003e is a volume laced with a complex sensuousness and moral keenness... This book like the bees of its title, collects essence and song, it's a great pleasure to read and a major work of art. -Robert Adamson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are poems where the pleasure of earthly distance becomes a pact with the human trouble that everybody knows, delicately acknowledged in the reverberations of particulars. -Peter Riley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...a book of unusual beauty and of original insight. -Robert Gray\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUtterly convincing places where ordinary happiness might reside. -Nigel Wheale, \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363396653330,"sku":"9781848610088","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_305af642-be46-4d01-8923-77b86e9d48d2.jpg?v=1728413276","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wild-bees-new-and-selected-poems-9781848610088","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}