{"title":"Stuart Cooke","description":"\u003cp\u003eStuart Cooke's works explore vivid themes within \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, blending sharp observation with a distinctive literary voice. His titles, such as \u003cem\u003eApples \u0026amp; Oranges\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Grass is Greener Over Your Grave\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers into narratives that balance wit, reflection, and poignant insights on everyday life and human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect a thoughtful examination of relationships and societal nuances, rendered with nuance and creativity. Cooke’s writing offers a compelling journey through the complexities of modern existence, making his collection an engaging choice for those drawn to culturally rich and thoughtfully crafted stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-grass-is-greener-over-your-grave-by-stuart-cooke-9781922571755","title":"The Grass is Greener Over Your Grave","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Cooke's previous book, \u003ci\u003eLyre\u003c\/i\u003e, urged us towards the \"more\" of the more-than-human world, then \u003ci\u003eThe Grass is Greener Over Your Grave\u003c\/i\u003e returns to the \"human\" end of that spectrum—though always with an eye to the porosity of the human and its immersion in waves of land, language, dream, and sea. Typically wide-ranging in form, this new collection develops Cooke's preoccupations with colonisation, ecology, metaphysics, and travel, while also acknowledging their heritage in the life and work of the late poet Martin Harrison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn extended elegy to a late friend and mentor, this is a culmination of the phenomenological and fiercely attentive place-based writing that has preoccupied Cooke's work to date. Traces of other local poetic influences—Phillip Hodgins, Jennifer Rankin and John Anderson—are visible and audible in Cooke's eventful treatment of the prose line and internal rhyme. There is, too, the emergence of a tougher, cooler voice; at times self-satirising, reminiscent of John Mateer's personae, Cooke brings forward a lyric character who treads these poems with ironic scrutiny, reflecting the author's ongoing work at the crossroads of non-Indigenous language and culture.\u003c\/em\u003e —Bonny Cassidy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455767363820,"sku":"9781922571755","price":57.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/715tD7BDIhL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774797667"},{"product_id":"apples-oranges-by-stuart-cooke-9781923099777","title":"Apples \u0026 Oranges","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays of \u003ci\u003eApples \u0026amp; Oranges\u003c\/i\u003e are selected from a decade of sustained enquiry into the possibilities for human and more-than-human poetics in the Anthropocene. Drawing on Cooke's experiences as a poet, critic, traveller, and translator, the landscapes are predominantly Antarctic, Australasian, and North \u0026amp; South American. New continental, intellectual, and affective formations emerge here as hybrids of memoir, travelogue, and literary criticism. Or a plethora of songs and signs are rescued from the wastelands of colonial imaginaries. Often, the search for meaning leads to poems; sometimes it leads to the contours of Cooke's own life. Indeed, the logics are poetic rather than sequential: allusion, collage, fragment, and metaphor compose recurrent, occasionally symphonic structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn line with the book's title, the essays interrogate and often transgress boundaries between poetry and prose, art and science, and human and non-human. The general tenor is both exploratory and precautionary: as the planet cooks into catastrophe, leaf-cutter ants make symbiotic sculptures, lyrebirds make forest operas, steel becomes sentient, the Brazilian Amazon blends with the Australian Outback, and Roman ruins foreshadow giant bergs breaking from the Antarctic ice sheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e...Cooke is one of our more exciting writers on poetry...\u003c\/b\u003e Caitlin Maling, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlumwood Mountain Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47772946727148,"sku":"9781923099777","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781923099777-apples-oranges.jpg?v=1782175827"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/stuart-cooke.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}