{"product_id":"slow-puncture-miles-burrows-9781800175150","title":"Slow Puncture","description":"\u003cp\u003eMiles burrows, the master of humorous, oddly profound poetic ' sketches' and dramas, returns with a new book of what he calls ' incidental verse', written in England and abroad, concerned with sickness and ageing as drama, where clinical situations are reflected in a series of vignettes staged between reality and dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems' characteristically mordant observations alight on subjects from a child's death to a shaman performing a ritual ceremony for the journey between Heaven and Earth, or the image of wheelchairs pushed under a tree by the Thai carers in a poem which dwells on how ageing people pass the day in different countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurrows knows that these reminiscences are in danger of falling back on their own material's natural comedy, like a spider continually struggling to get out of an empty bathtub as one poem's title has it. In another poem, a moorland pony stuck fast in a bog, sinking, is rescued by a team with a jeep who attach a belt round him and lug him out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems are second thoughts, cartoons, \u003ci\u003eesprits de l' escalier\u003c\/i\u003e, sybil's leaves, poems at a tangent, unspoken repartees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miles Burrows\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800175159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800175150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Miles Burrows","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48242070618367,"sku":"9781800175150","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_281dbef0-a9cb-41fe-81c9-b798c0d291da.jpg?v=1772657350","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slow-puncture-miles-burrows-9781800175150","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}