{"product_id":"moy-sand-and-gravel","title":"Moy Sand and Gravel","description":"Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since \"Hay\" (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, where he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bull, Ted Hughes, an otter, a fox, Mr and Mrs Stanley Joscelyne, an unearthed pit pony, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde or a flock of redknots. At the heart of the book is an elegy for a miscarried child, and that elegiac tone predominates, particularly in the elegant remaking of Yeats's \"A Prayer for My Daughter\", with which the book concludes, where a welter of traffic signs and slogans, along with the spirits of admen, hardware storekeepers, flim-flammers, fixers and other forbears, are borne along by a hurricane-swollen canal, and private grief coincides with some of the gravest matter of our age.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39660553371733,"sku":"9780571215355N","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/c52aa8f1-c0bf-46fe-bd85-9d4e68959976.jpg?v=1644277705","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/moy-sand-and-gravel","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}