{"product_id":"tilt-by-jean-sprackland","title":"Tilt by Jean Sprackland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces are unreliable, all territories unmapped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are poems that explore the ambivalence and dark unease of slippage and collapse, but they also carry a powerful sense of the miraculous made manifest amongst the ordinary: the mating of natterjack toads, ice on the beach ('dream stuff, with its own internal acoustic') or 'the fund of life' in a used contraceptive. Bracken may run wild across the planet 'waiting for the moment\/to pounce on the accident\/of the discarded match' but there are also the significant wonders of children and the natural beauty of the world they've inherited. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTilt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a collection of raw, distressed and beautiful poems, a hymn to the remarkable survival of things in the face of threat - for every degradation an epiphany, for every drowning a birth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beyond Books Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58434213282166,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/2969\/8658\/files\/tilt.jpg?v=1786450101","url":"https:\/\/www.beyond-books.co.uk\/products\/tilt-by-jean-sprackland","provider":"Beyond Books Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}