{"product_id":"republic-of-dogs-republic-of-birds-2020-9781913513078","title":"Republic Of Dogs\/Republic Of Birds: 2020","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRepublic Of Dogs\/Republic Of Birds\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent, meditative text of urban and rural language and landscapes. Its non-linear narrative moves between London’s Isle of Dogs and the Western Isles of Scotland and is both a topographical journey through two landscapes and a highly personal meditation on the history and geographies of these locations. The writing itself is a form of activism, memorialising eroded cultures through their physical traces and the stories and voices of their inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRepublic Of Dogs\/Republic Of Birds\u003c\/i\u003e is a lucid memorial text by one of the most astute and sensitive of writers on the relationship between landscape and time. The author’s distinct and visceral poetic sensibility combines a fierce honesty, rooted in the realities of places he has lived and worked in, with a beautiful and explosive imaginative lyricism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten on a typewriter in the 1980s, the manuscript was mislaid and lost. Found again in 2012 it was typed onto a laptop with minimal editing. First published in 2016 and republished in 2020, it is a text for and of our dissonant times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prototype Publishing Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53191503937879,"sku":"9781913513078","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/republic-of-dogs-republic-of-birds-2020-9781913513078","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}