{"product_id":"the-bird-in-the-glasshouse-9781915022035","title":"The Bird in the Glasshouse","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Knute Skinner\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Salmon Poetry\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Salmon Poetry\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Knute Skinner's poetry: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skinner has poems that for sheer beauty take your head off.\" -- John Gardner, on \"A Close Sky over Killaspuglonane\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you want to know how real poetry reads, buy this book, read it, and keep it.\" -- Leonard Blackstone, on \"Selected Poems\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skinner does the lot: the sacred, the profane, the formal and the loose, and does them all wonderfully well.\" -- John W. Sexton, Poetry Ireland News\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As fine and engaging a testament to the complicated nature of simple pleasures as any in contemporary poetry.\" -- Wayne Burroughs, Staples\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skinner's mischievous eye never takes the ordinary for granted.\" -- Jennifer Matthews, Southword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a time when many poets cannot resist the grand gesture, Skinner's art is the achievement of presence in the places we go to: in field, kitchen, bar, dictionary, anecdote, joke, love bower.\" -- James Liddy, on \"Learning to Spell 'Zucchini'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a stunning collection, full of mystery, cross-purposes, weird and tragic characters, and should be read from start to finish.\" -- Aidan Murphy, on \"The Bears \u0026amp; Other Poems\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Skinner works a seemingly homespun Gothicity which is yet quietly artful in the way it jolts the reader out of the even tenor of pleasant expectations.\" -- Tom Hubbard, Poetry Ireland Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are very few books of poetry that you would run back into a burning building to retrieve. Make no mistake, 'An Upside Down World' is one of them.\" -- Frank Golden, on \"An Upside Down World\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salmon Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47888858644631,"sku":"9781915022035","price":1050.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781915022035.webp?v=1781169033","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-bird-in-the-glasshouse-9781915022035","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}