{"product_id":"what-light-can-do-luke-whitington-9781761093517","title":"What Light Can Do: New \u0026 Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e'These poems record a life lived sensuously and to the full in three countries: Italy, Ireland, and Australia. In an era when eros-charged descriptions of foreign feasts make best-selling travel books and TV programs, this book will find a large audience. But Luke Whitington is far more than a sensualist whose mind's tongue curves inquisitively round gnocchi in the shape of a famous courtesan's navel. This is a poet who knows history and art, and feels intensely both youth's freshness and the nostalgias of age, lamenting lost parents and lovers. His Italy is flavoured by Horace and Brodsky; and his imagery is rich and deep. Hedges shaken by a storm in Ireland are seen 'running away like green-cloaked rogues'. The moon rises like a \"Soaring circular Sphinx, slowing in mid-summer night air\". Youth clings to a middle-aged man's complexion \"Like an anxious fly\". A high wind sets the leaves \"streaming this way, that way \/ Like frightened mice\". Lovers lie embraced, \"While the whole world looks, and thinks it sees.\" Pigeon-swarms, \"intoxicated with the element\", swerve, dissolve, reform \"as if to a heavenly conductor's baton\". Cows in a water-meadow munch flowers \"where Vikings rose in roars from bumping prows of curved ships\". A poet of such luxuriant talent would normally have revealed it over a lifetime in a dozen slim volumes. Whitington instead has saved all his riches and served them up in this one sitting. Enjoy!' - Mark O'Connor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'For years, I have been part of a small group of friends who have received, almost daily, an early morning email from Luke W.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a rule, it would contain only two or three words of text, and an attachment - a poem. Newly minted, fresh out of his imagination, sometimes still to be completed. A prodigious production that meant a prodigious inner push to do poetry. It is something that would at times irritate: how does he dare doing so much and so well? To see now, finally in a book, some of those works, gives a sense of timelessness to those morning emails - they are now part of a coherent whole, of a life justified also by a poetic product of considerable, true quality and appeal. Good on you, early riser, constant, brilliant writer!' - Paolo Totaro AM \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luke Whitington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1761093517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781761093517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Debbie Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.38d","brand":"Luke Whitington","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074834886911,"sku":"9781761093517","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_74801861-c590-4859-99a5-917346191d1f.jpg?v=1685456046","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-light-can-do-luke-whitington-9781761093517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}