{"product_id":"casket-andy-brown-9781848616837","title":"Casket","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Franks Casket (or Auzon Casket) is an 8th century Anglo-Saxon treasure chest, donated to the British Museum by a private owner from Auzon, France. Made from whalebone, the front, back, sides and lid of this small chest are decorated with runic inscriptions, some Latin text and images from various religious and mythical traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach rune has an equivalent letter in the Latin alphabet, allowing for Anglo-Saxon and modern English translations. Each rune also has a pictorial value: for example, in the runic ᚠᛁᛋᚳ('fisc'), f signifies 'wealth', i 'ice', s 'sun' and c 'torch', yielding a sequence of four images. To write the poems in this collection, I determined the sequence of images yielded by each runic word and then used these images, or variants of them, to write the poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing this multilevel technique of 'translation', the following poems are an attempt to capture something of the layered histories, from ancient times to present, of the place where I now live: the River Teign and its surrounding area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Andy Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andy Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 184861683X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848616837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.08d","brand":"Andy Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46881141850367,"sku":"9781848616837","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_113b5e0a-c4ba-4e72-a60e-beae12734fa9.jpg?v=1747970801","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/casket-andy-brown-9781848616837","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}