{"product_id":"the-fetch-9781911027096","title":"The Fetch","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gregory Leadbetter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Nine Arches Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Nine Arches Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Leadbetter's first full collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Fetch, \u003c\/em\u003e brings together poems that reach through language to the mystery of our being, giving voice to silence and darkness, illuminating the unseen. With their own rich alchemy, these poems combine the sensuous and the numinous, the lyric and the mythic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging from invocation to elegy, from ghost poems to science fiction, Leadbetter conjures and quickens the wild and the weird. His poems bring to life a theatre of awakenings and apprehensions, of births and becoming, of the natural and the transnatural, where life and death meet. Powerful, imaginative, and precisely realised, \u003cem\u003eThe Fetch \u003c\/em\u003eis also poignant and humane - animated by love, alive with the forces of renewal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'The Fetch\u003c\/em\u003e is a terrific, precise and dazzling collection. The whole book exemplifies a poetry of being that shows what is possible when we allow ourselves to be fully human in our perception and poetry.' - \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Morley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Gregory Leadbetter tugs a forelock to the Romantics in these emotive and thoughtful poems. The world of the spirit meets the physical world: here are ghosts and jaybirds, lichen and longing side by side. A collection full of quiet intent, testifying to \"the overwhelming importance of love.\"' - \u003cstrong\u003eJo Bell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Leadbetter's poems are finely-made and quietly powerful - every word is the right word. But they can also be deceptive and unsettling, showing us the darkness at the edges of our everyday lives. As he puts it in 'The Departed' \"I see what the part of me that died has seen.\"' -\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatrick McGuinness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Gregory Leadbetter's poetry is uncanny in the true sense: a place of unnerving strangeness where you feel finally at home.' -\u003cstrong\u003e Luke Kennard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nine Arches Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890297782423,"sku":"9781911027096","price":963.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781911027096.webp?v=1781179433","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-fetch-9781911027096","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}