{"product_id":"like-a-tree-walking","title":"Like a Tree, Walking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eThe Poetry Book Society Winter Choice 2021.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVahni Capildeo's \u003cem\u003eLike a Tree, Walking\u003c\/em\u003e is a fresh departure, even for this famously innovative poet. Taking its title from a story of sight miraculously regained, this book draws on Capildeo's interest in ecopoetics and silence.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMany pieces originate in specific places, from nocturnes and lullabies in hilly Port of Spain to 'stillness exercises' recording microenvironments - emotional and aural - around English trees.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese journeys offer a configuration of the political that makes a space for new kinds of address, declaration and relation. Capildeo takes guidance from vernacular traditions of sensitivity ranging from Thomas A Clark and Iain Crichton Smith to the participants in a Leeds libraries project on the Windrush. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLike a Tree, Walking\u003c\/em\u003e is finally a book defined by how it writes love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vahni Capildeo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43106885042433,"sku":"9781800171954","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-296.png?v=1699955387","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/like-a-tree-walking","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}