{"product_id":"moy-sand-and-gravel","title":"Paul Muldoon: Moy Sand and Gravel [2002] hardback","description":"Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since \"Hay\" (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, where he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bull, Ted Hughes, an otter, a fox, Mr and Mrs Stanley Joscelyne, an unearthed pit pony, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde or a flock of redknots. At the heart of the book is an elegy for a miscarried child, and that elegiac tone predominates, particularly in the elegant remaking of Yeats's \"A Prayer for My Daughter\", with which the book concludes, where a welter of traffic signs and slogans, along with the spirits of admen, hardware storekeepers, flim-flammers, fixers and other forbears, are borne along by a hurricane-swollen canal, and private grief coincides with some of the gravest matter of our age.","brand":"Muldoon, Paul","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47806287642963,"sku":"XG80571215355","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/muldoon-paul-moy-sand-and-gravel-xg80571215355-54901668381011.jpg?v=1710359788","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/moy-sand-and-gravel","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}