{"product_id":"what-the-wolf-heard-daragh-breen-9781848614963","title":"What the Wolf Heard","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the opening Lighthouses section the west coast of Ireland is recast as a kind of Burroughsian Land of the Dead, with the ghost-lights from defunct lighthouses mixing with those of the automated in a sequence that slowly allows itself to be decoded.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNed Kelly, given his own requiem, is found morphing in and out of a lupine-self following the destruction of the last wolf in Ireland and a period which saw the mass-banishment of many of the country's underclasses to the new British antipodean colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOther poems are suggestive of a bestiary, presenting various animals that have been damaged and reformed by their current environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA number of contemporary Irish artists are used as a sounding board, the poems following them, Alice-like, down their various rabbit-holes. Thrown into all of this mix are cameos from Harpo Marx and Mr. Punch, as well as opera-singing Alsatians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daragh Breen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848614969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848614963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.22d","brand":"Daragh Breen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486200312063,"sku":"9781848614963","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8caca68-7159-48cb-a345-dd312ca09c05.jpg?v=1778054315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-the-wolf-heard-daragh-breen-9781848614963","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}