{"product_id":"ian-gouge-selected-poems-ian-gouge-9781739766061","title":"Ian Gouge - Selected Poems (1976 - 2022)","description":"At a recent reading event, I was asked which of my collections was my 'best book'. It was an innocent enough question, designed to aid a purchasing decision. It was also an unfair question. Any marginal preference I may have for one or the other is inevitably dwarfed by the knowledge that there are good pieces in all my volumes of poetry and that, in expressing a preference, a potential reader will always be in danger of missing out on something I would like to think 'worthy'. Yet you can't expect your average reader to buy all your books!\u003cbr\u003eFor a while I had been toying with the idea of pulling together a 'selected works', gathering all my favourite poems under a single cover. This notion had been growing in strength partly as a result of more regular attendance of 'open mics' at which I sometimes struggled to decide what to read; wouldn't it be rewarding to be able to take a single book to such events knowing every piece inside was a live candidate? On the back of that ambition, the 'best book' question only added fuel to the fire.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo here it is, a 'Greatest Hits' from my seven collections published to-date. And, because I couldn't help myself, I have thrown in a small number of as yet unseen poems. Of course, I should also say that this endeavour in no way diminishes the value of the individual books themselves; there are many more poems that might easily have found their way into this volume had size not been a consideration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Gouge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1739766067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781739766061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coverstory Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.32d","brand":"Ian Gouge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074829840639,"sku":"9781739766061","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0bbf3650-dcc5-4108-a944-ad36546b5c6a.jpg?v=1685456017","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ian-gouge-selected-poems-ian-gouge-9781739766061","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}