{"product_id":"9780571273324","title":"Six Children","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  FORD, MARK \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLanguage\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 May 2011 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER (N\/A).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | \u003cbr\u003e197 x 139 x 7 | 97g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Though unmarried I have had six children,' Walt Whitman claimed in a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eletter late in his life. The title poem of Mark Ford's third collection  imagines the great poet's getting of these mysterious children, of whom  no historical trace has ever emerged. Conception and extinction dominate  this extraordinary new volume from one of the country's most exciting  poets; it includes a lament for the passing of the passenger pigeon, a  sestina on the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya (where the poet was born), a  chance encounter with a seventy-year-old Hart Crane in Greenwich  Village, an elegy for Mick Imlah (whose Selected Poems Ford has edited for Faber), and a moving tribute to that weirdest of religious sects, the Munster Anabaptists. Six Children  is Ford's most formally varied and historically wide-ranging volume. It  is sure to win many new admirers for a poet whose work has been  championed by such as Helen Vendler, John Bayley, Barbara Everett, and  John Ashbery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925241463043,"sku":"9780571273324","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780571273324_cac02353-c9d1-4e94-8cce-ddee5fa6bfa2.jpg?v=1731417332","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.pro\/products\/9780571273324","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}