{"product_id":"meantime-9781990048807","title":"Meantime","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, eighteen thousand uncrossable kilometres lay between poet Majella Cullinane in Aotearoa New Zealand and her mother in Ireland, a distance unbridgeable even by phone as Cullinane's mother's language was lost to dementia. Meantime calls and keens across this terrible distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith attentiveness, tenderness and extraordinary vulnerability, these poems speak directly to personal experience while also addressing a wider world shadowed and altered by illness, where everything once familiar and coherent is disintegrating, in flux, uncertain and strange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems are works of vigil and devotion, breathed into existence by a daughter who could not be at the bedside of her beloved, dying parent. Personal and universal in its themes, the poems in Meantime possess a gravitas born of sorrow, steeped in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA warm and loving conversation about memory and forgetting, and a celebration of the power of voice to connect and heal, this is a collect\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Otago University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470410223959,"sku":"9781990048807","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781990048807.jpg?v=1744898273","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/meantime-9781990048807","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}