{"product_id":"the-lifeguard-poems-2008-2013-9781869407698","title":"The Lifeguard: Poems 2008-2013","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ian Wedde\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Auckland University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Auckland University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Australian \u0026amp; Oceanian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Wedde's latest collection of poems are a complex mix of rhapsody, fear, and humor, and the prose explore the contradictions between life's pool-side surfaces and frightening undertows. Opening with a major new series of poems \"The Lifeguard,\" it concludes with another long sequence, \"Shadow Stands Up,\" in which a world of Platonic memory and tidal recurrence is observed from a window-seat in Auckland's conspicuously green-branded Link bus. Bringing together work from the past five years by one of New Zealand's most outstanding contemporary poets, this collection shows a master of the are at his thoughtful and surprising best.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45087313756311,"sku":"9781869407698","price":1155.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781869407698.webp?v=1767640263","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-lifeguard-poems-2008-2013-9781869407698","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}