{"product_id":"blue-hour","title":"Blue Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in the green spaces and urban grit of contemporary\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"mi\" data-uw-rm-lang=\"false\"\u003eTe Whanganui-a-Tara\u003c\/span\u003e, this award-winning debut collection from poet Jo McNeice unfolds like a Gothic fairytale. Darkness and light ripple through these haunting, intimate poems, which draw on themes of love, madness, betrayal, desire and recovery to tell the story of a woman searching among the images and events of her life for answers – sometimes finding them, sometimes not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlue Hour\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003egrapples with the complexities of human nature, mental health and relationships. ‘You know,’ writes McNeice, ‘we are irregular verbs. \/ You know the universe is harsh.’ In the remarkable universe created by these poems, the irregular is allowed. Here, mermaids, angels and wolves share space with everyday sparrows in plum trees and dandelions on the lawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeet me in the in-between\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr role=\"presentation\" data-uw-rm-sr=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ewhere the negative\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr role=\"presentation\" data-uw-rm-sr=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eis being developed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom ‘Blue hour’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘The voice is beautiful yet unsettling, aching yet funny, lyric yet gritty.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eBlue Hour\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eis constructed in such a way that fragments, memories and allusions circle and surge, build and resound. It feels as if the poet is reaching across an almost impossible divide to show the reader what it’s like.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– Anne Kennedy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A muscular and melodic dissection of the human heart both unflinching and urgent. A shifting kaleidoscope of light and darkness, entrapment and escape. At every turn new visions slide into view, delicately balanced and shimmering on the edge of perception. An exquisite collection of resounding originality.'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e– Claire Orchard\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Otago University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43273804382242,"sku":"9781990048821","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/0785\/1042\/files\/PET-Web-template---2024-11-15T124511-328.jpg?v=1731627935","url":"https:\/\/petronella.pro\/products\/blue-hour","provider":"Petronella's Gallery and Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}