{"product_id":"figure-in-the-landscape-paperback-2","title":"Figure in the Landscape - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDanny Gardner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResponses to poems in \u003cem\u003eFigure in the Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirk Kruithof, commenting on the poems about art\/artists and music\/musicians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Danny's poems are compellingly enjoyable. (I've just raced through those, have you got any more?) They are human, perceptive and idiosyncratic - he's not afraid to cut through the lazy conventions of thought.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Clark, responding to the sequence 'Spain, Are you Here (early 1980s)'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'There is so much poetry in Spanish history! You have caught it like Laurie Lee in his book \u003cem\u003eA Rose for Winter\u003c\/em\u003e. The surly Basques are there too and the Duende: 'be aware that Death comes to all.' The last line in your sequence - 'We all have a Spanish mother' - is a great compliment to all our mothers. You have created windows in time.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLes Wicks, responding to poems with turns of contemporary commentary - a wide mix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Really excited revisiting your work. There is a realism that is sharp enough to wound. But always engaged, human.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Langford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'These poems vary from personal experiences and travel accounts (south-west Tasmania, the Finke River) to meditations on historical events. Often the poems seize on potent images: a blanket made from human hair in Auschwitz, the nightmare of Jan Pelgrom de Bye, put ashore for mutiny on the WA coast in 1629 or Reinhold Messner's pursuit of the Yeti. They are poems with a contemporary imagination and curiosity, containing both a stubborn political insistence and a very modern doubt about the direction of history and the speaker's relationship to the landscape.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Radmall, responding to the sequence 'From Arles, Provence'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The beautifully crafted realism of these poems is both personal and relevatory. We are drawn gently into the intimacies and particulars of Vincent's world, the physical, every day world around him - and then take a new breath at the profundity and vulnerability inherent in each encounter with it. Each poem is a dazzling vignette, a direct insight into an artist's passion, into the questionings and realisations of a man travailling but rejoicing in the great mysteries of art and life.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Radmall, responding to the sequence 'Thameside Cohorts (early 1980s)'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn each poem we meet with vivid, eye-opening images that come off the page and whirl about us as we thrill to the bold realities of 1980s London: rough streets, run-down train stations, boxing gyms and seedy East End rooms, and all the visitants of these, illumined with a stark, backlit grunge that is raw, confronting and alive. We too become the visitants here, haunting the same sights, sensing the same offerings - so evocative is the journey through.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 154\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47582688248029,"sku":"9781761092947","price":36.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/Fg6-iKP1Kc9781761092947_896baeac-911b-4c44-b31c-55721e6d8d48.webp?v=1773583137","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/figure-in-the-landscape-paperback-2","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}