{"title":"David Musgrave","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Musgrave’s works offer a distinctive blend of literary imagination and cultural insight, weaving narratives that explore the complexities of human experience. His stories often delve into themes of identity and perception, inviting readers to engage deeply with both character and context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a style that balances poetic sensitivity and sharp observation, Musgrave’s fiction bridges the realms of general fiction and arts \u0026amp; culture. Readers can expect thought-provoking narratives that challenge conventions and illuminate diverse perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lambda-by-david-musgrave-9781787703193","title":"Lambda","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOutwardly alien arrivals from a distant sea, the lambdas are genetically human. They slip quietly into low- to middle-income jobs and appear to want nothing more than to be left alone. For Cara Gray, they are first a haunting presence in her otherwise ordinary childhood, then the inscrutable target of her police surveillance work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a bomb goes off at a school, a nebulous group of lambda extremists claims responsibility for the attack—but how could a vulnerable community of tiny aquatic humans, barely visible in society and seemingly indifferent to their own exploitation, be capable of something so horrific?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Cara's world, a toothbrush can be legally alive, a quantum computer has the power to decide who dies, and a government employee made of slime mould protein needs help to relieve his neuroses. As Cara's relationship with the lambdas deepens, she must decide whether to accept her place in a pattern of technology, violence, and deceit, or to take action of her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLambda\u003c\/em\u003e by David Musgrave explores these complex themes, immersing readers in a unique and thought-provoking narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712139383020,"sku":"9781787703193","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2fe7318ab2bf0b0e26781c612d9b7e9d.jpg?v=1759168941"},{"product_id":"mishearing-by-david-musgrave-9780645801903","title":"Mishearing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMishearing\u003c\/em\u003e is a companion volume to Musgrave's 2016 \u003cem\u003evers libre\u003c\/em\u003e collection \u003cem\u003eAnatomy of Voice\u003c\/em\u003e. In it, he details the compositional method of these poems as 'mishearings' of poems via Microsoft Word 2003's in-built speech recognition function.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eMishearing\u003c\/em\u003e suite of poems is accompanied by an introductory essay and an afterword, both of which range widely in his attempts to comprehend the mysteries of voice, myth, and the poetic art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47425836679404,"sku":"9780645801903","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780645801903.jpg?v=1774768086"},{"product_id":"numb-and-number-by-david-musgrave-9781925780383","title":"Numb and Number","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNumb and Number\u003c\/i\u003e collects together poems written between 2011 and 2019. At its core is a confronting sequence of confessional poems which arises from depression and includes poems on the death of the poet's mother. It also includes a number of narrative poems which range from a long poem in the voice of the former boy convict George Bruce in 1811 to a meditation on historical contingency in \u003ci\u003eFrom a Train in Connecticut\u003c\/i\u003e and some satirical poems such as \u003ci\u003eOde to Australia's Most Ambitious Poet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHomecoming\u003c\/i\u003e, which satirises Australians' current fetish for travel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe emotional range of this collection is remarkable, and the formal variety is equally intriguing, making this a long-awaited addition to this major poet's oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426638708972,"sku":"9781925780383","price":57.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925780383.jpg?v=1774767866"},{"product_id":"phantom-limb-by-david-musgrave-9780980526998","title":"Phantom Limb","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Musgrave's poems are at once meditative and restless, elegant and sensual, with an energy of empathy that draws him to a wealth of subjects. They are in several kinds of free verse and formal constraint. Here is wit and melancholy in equal measure, with a dose of joyous satire thrown in. Waterscapes and landscapes figure strongly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTypically, they move from the moment of observation to make transformative connections with emotional and imaginative states: the continual freshness of approach from one to another of these poems is a hallmark. Other poems meet human situations more immediately. The self, or some other, is substantiated with a generosity of feeling—this becomes a startling quality within the strands of satire in some poems, notably \u003cem\u003eThe Baby Boomers\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGenerosity also drives—as much as an elegant form does—\u003cem\u003eYoung Montaigne Goes Riding\u003c\/em\u003e. Those two extended poems are peaks in a book of exuberant curiosity. \u003cem\u003ePhantom Limb\u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the 2010 Grace Leven Prize, along with LK Holt's \u003cem\u003ePatience, Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e and Petra White's \u003cem\u003eThe Simplified World\u003c\/em\u003e. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Western Australian Premier's Poetry Book Award and for the John Bray Prize in the 2011 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426983166188,"sku":"9780980526998","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780980526998.jpg?v=1774767729"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/david-musgrave.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}