{"product_id":"the-unaccompanied-poems-isbn-9781524732424","title":"The Unaccompanied: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the prize-winning poet and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom comes a powerful collection of poetry that gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment, to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as the centuries pass by, to a latter-day Odysseus looking for enlightenment and hope in the shadowy underworld of a cut-price supermarket. We see the changing shape of England itself, viewed from a satellite \"like a shipwreck's carcass raised on a sea-crane's hook, \/ nothing but keel, beams, spars, down to its bare bones.\" In this exquisite collection, Armitage X-rays the weary but ironic soul of his nation, with its \"Songs about mills and mines and a great war, \/ lines about mermaids and solid gold hills, \/ songs from broken hymnbooks and cheesy films\"—in poems that blend the lyrical and the vernacular, with his trademark eye for detail and biting wit.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300395471077,"sku":"NP9781524732424","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781524732424.jpg?v=1767741975","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-unaccompanied-poems-isbn-9781524732424","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}