{"product_id":"striking-a-match-in-a-storm-new-and-collected-poems-9781800172333","title":"Striking a Match in a Storm: New and Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eThe Welsh poet Andrew McNeillie brings together in this generous and timely volume his seven collections of poems - including his most recent, Making Ends Meet, and his Forward-Prize-shortlisted Carcanet collection Nevermore (2000). \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Welsh poet Andrew McNeillie brings together in this generous and timely volume his seven collections of poems – including his most recent, Making Ends Meet, and his Forward-Prize-shortlisted Carcanet collection Nevermore (2000). McNeillie's poems possess the same precision and ear for other voices which have made him a noted nature writer and an influential editor of the handsomely designed eco-literature magazine Archipelago, and like it, take as their focus the 'unnameable archipelago' of Britain and Ireland, at its wilder margins, with close observation of place, community, and hands-on outdoor experience. His celebrated memoir An Aran Keening (2001) is about a year's stay on one of the islands of that Archipelago. His publishing house Clutag Press produces beautiful limited editions of work by some of his favourite writers – Hill and Heaney among them.He is a witty writer and an ironist, but he is also a visionary in the sense that his poems sharpen vision of the environment and the crucial minutiae of the natural world we partly inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 392g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 136 x 216 x 29 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781800172333\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew McNeillie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44095161041146,"sku":"9781800172333","price":13.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1648814483345_book.jpg?v=1648921086","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/striking-a-match-in-a-storm-new-and-collected-poems-9781800172333","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}