{"product_id":"wodwo-9780571097142","title":"Wodwo","description":"\u003cp\u003e... the best English poet of his generation. Forty poems  five stories (including that extraordinary celebration of panic The Rain Horse)  and a play. In them move the ghostly shapes of beasts  predators and prey  the Norsemen  and the damaged Tommies  and all the figures of that mythology through which Ted Hughes communicates his disturbing vision of England and its history. The Guardian . . . he is the most powerful and original poet now writing in this country. A. Alvarez in The Observer . . . quite the best book by an English poet since Philip Larkins The Whitsun Wed-dings . . . the passion and exactness with which he looks at skylarks  stones  hare-bells  gnats  ferns and thistles  and makes them his own in an entirely fresh way  is extremely intense and thrilling. Derwent May in The Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923740164149,"sku":"ByrdShop_0571097146","price":99.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780571097142.jpg?v=1794113321","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wodwo-9780571097142","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}