{"product_id":"antler-9781844719648","title":"Antler","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric Gregory Award Winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors of folktale and myth; fraudsters, liars, and con-men lurk perpetually in the shadows. This panorama is emotional, too, most vividly in the collection’s centrepiece: the sequence ‘Vaisala and Sinuhe’, charting an astronomy professor’s infatuation with one of his postgraduate students, who may or may not be a werewolf. Pared-down, playful and often very funny, Clegg’s poetry keeps faith with what is tactile and tangible (moss, leather, bone), distilling plainspoken diction, luminous imagery and a unique worldview into lines which remain in the head for a long while after the book has been closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eClegg mixes \"genuine and imaginary anthropology\", and the join between those aspects of his work that are essentially tall tales or fabulation and those that the results of diligent research is practically invisible. So too is the transition between tightly controlled traditional form and ranging free verse, the former being done so softly and unostentatiously. A quick march through some of the titles (’Moss’, ‘Nightgrass’, ‘Wounded Musk Ox’, ‘Kayaks’, ‘Meteor’, ‘Dill’, ‘Mosquito’) reads like a sort of ingredients list – words as ancient elements, boiled down tinctures, excavated knucklebones and panned nuggets, bottled and labelled for cautious use in the creation of spells and medicines. Plus there's the over-arching sensation of the poet's joyous obsessiveness, like a child collecting shells or insects, in everything he writes about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo yeah, yeah, I recommend it.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jon Stone * Sidekick Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeather\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAntler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiltdown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTributary Myth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Whole Hog\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpell for an Orchard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNightgrass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Dead Racehorse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFolk Tale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShaman Hunter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWounded Musk Ox\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAntler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRamon Sije\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarimba Music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePetrified Forest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFly Embryo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTreecreeper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mysteries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKayaks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Balance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeteor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonolith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInanna\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul’s Job\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWildfire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLuz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWisdom Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMermaids\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Empty Bottle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeasons in the Frame Shop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTheology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlaciology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe King of Herring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWillow Tit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVaisala and Sinuhe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMosquito\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSauna\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearning German\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTenses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Buried Ox\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePheasants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHair Cuts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCosmos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Origin of Man\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLies of the Land\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771557183831,"sku":"9781844719648","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844719648.jpg?v=1758728260","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/antler-9781844719648","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}