{"product_id":"say-i-do-this-c-k-stead","title":"Say I Do This: Poems 2018-2022 - C. K. Stead","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA beautiful new collection from this country’s leading poet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘It’s hard to renounce life once one is fond of it.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Ludwig Wittgenstein\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country’s most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. ‘I lead a life of quiet medication’, the poet claims, ‘longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.’ But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering an encounter in Belsize Park, in the thick of it or asking, ‘what next?’, Stead’s voice is intimate, amusing and always compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSwimming in the dark I call on memory –\u003cbr\u003e     Rangitoto ahead, and those lights\u003cbr\u003e          of Kohi behind making\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ea cosy half-circle. Overhead the moon’s\u003cbr\u003e     a waka sailing west to escape\u003cbr\u003e          first light that will put it out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m reaching blind fingers for the yellow buoy\u003cbr\u003e     and touch it only as the sun does\u003cbr\u003e          dimly through a bank of cloud\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"is-hidden__small\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"EmmasatOxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43396847927450,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/9024\/8009\/products\/Stead_Say-I-Do-This__78456.jpg?v=1678328076","url":"https:\/\/emmasatoxford.pro\/products\/say-i-do-this-c-k-stead","provider":"EmmasatOxford","version":"1.0","type":"link"}