{"product_id":"dancing-at-oakmead-road-9781780378329","title":"Dancing at Oakmead Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing at Oakmead Road: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e spans almost 40 years of remarkable work from acclaimed UK poet Maura Dooley.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e This new selection presents her choice of poems from seven collections beginning with \u003ci\u003eIvy Leaves \u0026amp; Arrows\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), updating her earlier selection, \u003ci\u003eSound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002\u003c\/i\u003e, which drew on books including \u003ci\u003eExplaining Magnetism\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) and \u003ci\u003eKissing a Bone\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), with the addition of later poems from \u003ci\u003eLife Under Water\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eThe Silvering\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eFive Fifty-Five\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). \u003ci\u003eKissing a Bone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLife Under Water\u003c\/i\u003e were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.\u003c\/p\u003eMaura Dooley’s poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e) admired her ‘sharp and forceful’ intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability ‘to enact and find images for complex feelings…Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughness…she manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory ’ (\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDancing at Oakmead Road\u003c\/i\u003e is published on Maura Dooley's 70th birthday in tandem with a new collection, \u003ci\u003eLight that is both wave and particle\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maura Dooley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68532823687419,"sku":"9781780378329","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781780378329.jpg?v=1794427050","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/dancing-at-oakmead-road-9781780378329","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}