{"product_id":"slow-air-9780330488808","title":"Slow Air","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Painted Field\u003c\/i\u003e - Robin Robertson’s first collection - was published in 1997 to unanimous acclaim. In language both sensuous and coolly forthright, the poems in \u003ci\u003eSlow Air\u003c\/i\u003e describe the arc of loss, the search for grace, and the radiances and shadows of the natural world - the work pitching its embattled romanticism, its lyric weight, against fear, grief and erasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eA Painted Field\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘A superb debut . . . darkly chiselled poems haunted by mortality and the fragility of life’s pleasures’ Kazuo Ishiguro, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘The best new poet in Britain is Robin Robertson’ Andrew O’Hagan, \u003ci\u003e Independent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘A poetic voice of quiet yet charged maturity: lyrical and complex, transparent and gravid, it can treat both the public theme and the intensely personal with the same serenely wrought fire’ William Boyd, \u003ci\u003e Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e B\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767381360983,"sku":"9780330488808","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780330488808.jpg?v=1758713120","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/slow-air-9780330488808","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}