{"product_id":"a-riderless-horse-2022-9781869409777","title":"A Riderless Horse: 2022","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was Dick. I teased Anne and George. I was Edmund, betrayed my friends for a sweet. Something rotten in me. \t\t— from ‘My childhood’  In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the end of the driveway, over the Manawatū – twisting like an eel – and on to Topeka and Paris. These are poems of acid wit (‘I have been to Paris \/ and apart from the architecture \/ and the food and some very fine cemeteries \/ and of course the language \/ it’s quite like Palmerston North’), intimations of loss (‘The wrong life cannot be lived rightly. I should know’) and unexpected resolution (‘like pollen, \/ like grace so available nobody wanted it’). Unpredictable and restive, A Riderless Horse stands in the everyday and then runs with it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘I greatly admire Upperton’s virtuosity as a poet (so much variety of tone, form and feeling) – and how much of the world he manages to get into his poems. This arresting, sometimes zany, sometimes mordant collection will further add to his literary standing.’  — Harry Ricketts","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53191422083415,"sku":"9781869409777","price":18.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-riderless-horse-2022-9781869409777","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}