{"product_id":"collected-poems-by-laurie-lee-9780241625170","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA landmark collection of poems from the author of \u003ci\u003eCider with Rosie\u003c\/i\u003e, as evocative and poignant as his prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'If ever I saw blessing in the air\u003cbr\u003e\nI see it now in this still early day...'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLaurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning over. Yet Lee's poems also capture war, human relationships, and distant places, informed by his own experiences of lives uprooted by change and conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten during the course of his lifetime, the verses brought together in \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e range over Lee playing his fiddle in a Spanish town; ecstatic in the springtime of his beloved Slad valley; or digging for faith in the depths of winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGathered in one volume for the first time, and including a generous selection of previously unseen verses from Lee's archives, these timeless, poignant poems show him expressing the essence of life, love, and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46370270380268,"sku":"9780241625170","price":41.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/28051033482273.jpg?v=1744806855","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/collected-poems-by-laurie-lee-9780241625170","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}