{"product_id":"ox-eye-9781780376080","title":"Ox-Eye","description":"\u003cb\u003eAnne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer perspective in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOx-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e – the term for a small cloud presaging a storm – is one of apprehension in poems relating to personal and social change. Ranging from her native east coast of America to her adopted home on the south coast of England, these incisive but often amused poems question how we view past and present, dismantling obsolete nostalgia, and casting a critical eye on what we wish for and what may happen instead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOx-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her fifth collection from Bloodaxe, appearing 14 years after her previous book,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Upshot: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which included the new poems of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Divided\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2008), along with selections from her first three critically acclaimed earlier collections, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunset Grill \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1993) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiming\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1997) – both Poetry Book Society Recommendations – and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe School of Night \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(2004).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anne Rouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280130322683,"sku":"9781780376080","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781780376080.jpg?v=1772486441","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/ox-eye-9781780376080","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}