{"product_id":"border-zone-john-agard-9781780375885","title":"Border Zone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Agard's ninth Bloodaxe collection, \u003ci\u003eBorder Zone\u003c\/i\u003e, explores a far-reaching canvas of British\/Caribbean transatlantic connections, sweeping across centuries and continents.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis border territory ranges from \u003ci\u003eLove in a Sceptred Isle\u003c\/i\u003e, a novella-like narrative poem of a romance between Barbados-born photographer, Victor, and Welsh librarian, Rhiannon, told with lyrical tenderness and thought-provoking wit, to \u003ci\u003eCasanova the Philosopher\u003c\/i\u003e, a sequence of sonnets in the voice of the legendary Venetian philosophically observing 18th-century English ways in a tongue-in-cheek memoir and travelogue. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. This is a diverse collection where the thought-provokingly mischievous, bawdy and elegaic rub shoulders alongside the sequence \u003ci\u003eThe Plants Are Staying Put\u003c\/i\u003e - with the poet turning overnight lockdown gardener - as well as calypso poems, where the poet puts on his hat as \u003ci\u003e'poetsonian'\u003c\/i\u003e, a term he coined in the 80s in tribute to the inventive lyrics of the calypsonian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Agard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1780375883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780375885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloodaxe Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.50d","brand":"John Agard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077290356991,"sku":"9781780375885","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd5c5e9c-867d-40bf-bb60-59b9a1464a24.jpg?v=1685469205","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/border-zone-john-agard-9781780375885","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}