{"product_id":"a-scattering-and-anniversary-poems-9780374538088b","title":"A Scattering and Anniversary: Poems","description":"A Scattering is a book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid’s wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five. First published in the UK in 2009 to wide acclaim, winning the Costa Book of the Year, this moving and fiercely self-reflective collection is divided into four poetic sequences. The first was written during a holiday a few months before Gane’s death with the knowledge that the end was approaching; the second recalls her last courageous weeks, spent in a hospice in London; the third continues the exploration of bereavement from a variety of perspectives; and the fourth addresses her directly, celebrating her life, personality, and achievements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaired for the first time with Anniversary, which was written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Gane’s death, A Scattering and Anniversary brings the poet into dialogue, again, with the wife he loved. A moving exploration of the stages of grief and how the “weighty emptinesses” that remain after bereavement change us, A Scattering and Anniversary shows us what it means to love, lose, and - forever changed - continue on.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42868034863184,"sku":"9780374538088B","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374538088-l.jpg?v=1785872099","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/a-scattering-and-anniversary-poems-9780374538088b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}