{"product_id":"at-worlds-end-begin-jan-fortune-9781788641371","title":"At World's End, Begin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow do we come home in a strange land? \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving to a remote forest hamlet in a new country in the midst of a pandemic, the only way to connect is to take the time to linger, listen and observe-to be with the land that is becoming home. From this observations a series of haiku arise, following the Japanese system of 24 seasons divided into 72 micro-seasons and interspersed with eight lyric poems that travel around the Celtic wheel of the year. And so a forest garden and its surrounding Finist鑽e woodland slowly reveals itself, weaving together the lunar and solar, melding the Celtic shape of the year with the increments of the Japanese solar terms, each one unveiling a new aspect of change. \u003cbr\u003e Charting a life unmoored from the familiar, but permeable to the new the poems find their place at 'the end of the world', as the Romans called Finist鑽e, but also in Penn-ar-Bed, the Breton name which is both the end and start of the world. \u003cbr\u003e Most endings are also beginnings and here in these precise, exquisitely observed poems, we find ourselves both unsettled and settling, exploring what it means to hold together being adrift and belonging; cycles and transformation and how we find a beginning at the end of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Fortune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 178864137X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788641371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cinnamon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.48h x 4.72w x 0.11d","brand":"Jan Fortune","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44122186842367,"sku":"9781788641371","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7030fa65-6c34-4928-a9a1-3dad8b675979.jpg?v=1687423677","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/at-worlds-end-begin-jan-fortune-9781788641371","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}