{"product_id":"range-light-louise-oxley-9781763653047","title":"Range Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRange Light\u003c\/em\u003e is the powerful reward of waiting sixteen years to publish. There is a deep maturity in Louise Oxley's detailed and original observations of history, nature, art and land. With a richness of language, each word is placed in the line to expand, encompass and challenge. The way time tangles and untangles - forward and backward, in circularity, or on directed pathways - underlies much in the book. Acutely aware, like Citizen Riche in 1792, Oxley is 'seeing always, what is different from the known', making connections with the nature of our own inner world as well as our politics in the broadest sense, a tender subtlety in the handling of her subject matter. With the guidance of these poetic 'range lights' we move into an open understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobyn Rowland \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a moment in \u003cem\u003eRange Light\u003c\/em\u003e in which the skeletal remnants of an animal are perceived as 'loss in scrambled code'. This is beautifully suggestive of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Oxley's achievement - whether focussing on loss, hope, mortality, love, or the ambiguous presence of the natural world, her poems are always seeking to unscramble the codes in which the mysteries of experience come to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoss Gillett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Oxley's \u003cem\u003eRange Light\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of quiet accumulation. Attuned to the world and her place in it, Oxley writes with a deft line and precise gravity. In poems that take in the details-where to gather dulse, the 'empty, delicate angles' of discovered bones, the moment when 'autumn sun has steadied at the hilltop'-\u003cem\u003eRange Light\u003c\/em\u003e inducts the reader into a world thick with life and feeling and inquiry. Oxley reveals wonder at the 'true, clear\/ account of Nature's phenomena' and invites the reader to experience the same wonder. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Middleton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry Editor, \u003cem\u003eIsland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louise Oxley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1763653048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781763653047\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Walleah Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Louise Oxley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47637417394431,"sku":"9781763653047","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c68ecf0-8a20-481c-a033-a82f846514e6.jpg?v=1765116077","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/range-light-louise-oxley-9781763653047","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}