{"product_id":"the-dog-of-memory-9781780373188","title":"The Dog of Memory","description":"The dog of memory, an animal more often unbiddable and capricious than it is comforting and predictable, roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Helen Farish’s native Cumberland and further afield – mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens – and people, but also the landscape of literature itself which is explored through re-readings of ten authors encountered during her school days. Farish’s doggèd and deeply moving meditation on memory ranges far and wide, but is also weighed against a love of the present whose ‘poise is the pause of a church bell suspended \/ rim-up after its stroke.’ The weather of snow, which often evokes as well as muffling the past, is replaced by ‘liquefying high-sky heat.’ Rendered in poetry of dexterity and poise, this authoritative third collection takes the reader on a thrilling journey which is lyric, dramatic, enquiring. Writer of the Year Finalist, Cumbria Life Culture Awards 2017. Shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year 2017.","brand":"Helen Farish","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280125899003,"sku":"9781780373188","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781780373188.jpg?v=1772486435","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-dog-of-memory-9781780373188","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}