{"product_id":"the-unaccompanied-poems-9781524732424b","title":"The Unaccompanied: Poems","description":"In The Unaccompanied, Armitage gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace. We meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment, to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as the centuries pass by, to a latter-day Odysseus looking for enlightenment and hope in the shadowy underworld of a cut-price supermarket. We see the changing shape of England itself, viewed from a satellite \"like a shipwreck's carcass raised on a sea-crane's hook, \/ nothing but keel, beams, spars, down to its bare bones.\" In this exquisite collection, Armitage X-rays the weary but ironic soul of his nation, with its \"Songs about mills and mines and a great war, \/ lines about mermaids and solid gold hills, \/ songs from broken hymnbooks and cheesy films\"--in poems that blend the lyrical and the vernacular, with his trademark eye for detail and biting wit.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824025604176,"sku":"9781524732424B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781524732424-l.jpg?v=1785894903","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/the-unaccompanied-poems-9781524732424b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}