{"product_id":"pomonas-orchard","title":"Pomona's Orchard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePomona’s Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e, Adrian Blamires’ third collection, is dedicated to the arts of peace. Its tutelary spirits include Caliban tending to the dying Prospero, a great-aunt rescuing cats and dogs in the Blitz, the enlightened schoolmaster to an orphaned John Keats, and Pomona, Roman goddess of fruitful propagation, as the genius loci of a Herefordshire orchard. Miracles of love and healing are conjured in the face of violence and rapacity. Lament and dissent are sounded, alongside poems of witty, sensual profusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe collection closes with a Tudor-themed sequence which presents pressing encounters – highly politicized, highly eroticized – between the Virgin Queen and her subjects. Drawing on Elizabethan lyric, symbolism, realia and innuendo, the poet offers a tragicomic vision of queen and country, a resonant blend of history and myth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Rivers Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55515823407489,"sku":"9781915048301","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/files\/9781915048301.jpg?v=1775828354","url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/products\/pomonas-orchard","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}