{"product_id":"9780571384990","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Riordan, Maurice \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePoetry\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 13 March 2025 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 152 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 130 x 11 | 180g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Underwood's selection from Maurice Riordan's work over the last forty years allows us to rediscover a poet whose musicality, wit and emotional acuity rank him as a leading poet of his and any generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResponding to the imaginative range of Riordan's preoccupations, Underwood creates a dynamic arrangement for poems rooted in particularities of time and place, yet enduring in their audacious inventions and pungent ironies. They are compelling in their immediacy, whether they evoke a childhood in rural Co. Cork, describe a remote community that has taken to the treetops to sing, or itemise the novelties and effronteries of aging. Riordan's work appears here as it demands to be read: at once contemporary and timeless, vibrant with the anxieties and pleasures of being alive in the here and now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46738646106371,"sku":"9780571384990","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780571384990.jpg?v=1744299745","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.pro\/products\/9780571384990","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}