{"title":"Lucy Dougan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLucy Dougan\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts evocative poetry that explores the interplay between memory, culture, and the natural world. Her work often weaves vivid imagery with emotional depth, inviting readers into landscapes both familiar and strange. Titles like \u003cem\u003eMonster Field\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Guardians\u003c\/em\u003e reveal a keen sensitivity to the complexities of human experience and the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in contemporary arts and culture will find Dougan’s verse resonates with thoughtful reflection and lyrical beauty. Her distinctive voice captures moments of quiet intensity, making each collection a rich and immersive journey through language and life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"monster-field-by-lucy-dougan-9781922725370","title":"Monster Field","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDougan's elliptical work hints at a life that hovers just beyond our comprehension; in dreams, tales, the past, in the imagination of the poet. This other world surrounds even the most domestic of the poems.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Winner's citation, West Australian Premiers Poetry Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLucy Dougan's new collection draws on and is alive to the mysterious zone that Surrealist artist Paul Nash called the \u003cem\u003eMonster Field\u003c\/em\u003e: the place glimpsed from a car at speed which cannot be found again easily, and which opens up a space between the everyday and the occult as it 'almost slides past your eyes'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike a monster, 'elusive and ubiquitous', a poem is a 'showing' of what is both unsettling and familiar. In the world of everyday perception, mundane or discarded objects, fleeting scenes, and inconsequential places can become unexpectedly charged with momentary significance and rise up as weird extremities in the field of the ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDougan's ongoing concerns—the hidden or unperceived, things out of place, the intrusion of wildness into ordered spaces, in art and film, the shifting relationship between past and present—are deepened in this new collection by the disorientations of middle age: in experiences of survival, difficulty, and failure; in the presence and pressure of mystery; and in her conviction of what is sustainable in the making of things and in living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082287923436,"sku":"9781922725370","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15664823482872.jpg?v=1765272693"},{"product_id":"the-guardians-by-lucy-dougan-9781922146755","title":"The Guardians","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany poems in this collection explore the intrusions of 'the wild' into daily life, through memories, in illness, and in places that you've lost or left behind. Dougan is interested in the ways in which the past re-enters the present, particularly through the secrets of family life, in all kinds of atavism, and in pockets of wildness in the suburbs and the city which are a source of liveliness and a dark sort of energy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer poems feature old houses, ruins, revisited places; they focus on the bonds between the generations, between children and adults, humans and animals, and humans and the physical world. The title of the collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardians\u003c\/em\u003e, refers broadly to these ties, which impose a sense of guardianship on those who are bound by them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn contrast to the wildness they recognise, the poems themselves seek to tread lightly - they aspire to quietness and reticence, to cumulative rather than immediate effects, and to sustaining a relatively natural and unobtrusive voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363114270956,"sku":"9781922146755","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9878673482872.jpg?v=1772914437"},{"product_id":"white-clay-by-lucy-dougan-9781920882327","title":"White Clay","description":"","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428446716140,"sku":"9781920882327","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781920882327.jpg?v=1774496662"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/lucy-dougan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}