{"product_id":"voyaging-through-time-patricia-hann-9781838496708","title":"Voyaging Through Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis poetry collection presents a patchy record of an almost hundred-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyear-long life as it was lived until Covid 19 came into view. There\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis no mention of World War 2, which I lived through mainly as an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eevacuee and wrote about only in letters, and there is no mention of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovid in the poems, only one of which was written later than 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, reading through what I have written over the years, I can almost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecatch a sense of the pandemic waiting in the wings. The growing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexperience of crowding everywhere, the mass production methods\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof stock rearing, the human crowding out of wildlife, plant and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanimal, and the prospect cheerily propounded by extreme technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof emigration to another planet when depletion and pollution will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave rendered this one uninhabitable - all this was making for an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunhealthy state of things. At the same time, I am not one to underrate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe many benefits we enjoy from our advanced technology, as well\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor some of the changes it has brought to our way of living as for the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eenlargement of our understanding both of the world we live in and of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhat may be beyond. But the first function of poetry is to entertain, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand I hope there are poems here that will do that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Hann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 183849670X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781838496708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dolman Scott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.39d","brand":"Patricia Hann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241514709247,"sku":"9781838496708","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_40bbc10e-cc99-4e99-b1d4-df66c86328d6.jpg?v=1772654746","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/voyaging-through-time-patricia-hann-9781838496708","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}