{"product_id":"meat-lovers","title":"Meat Lovers","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tenderly devastating look at our cows and ourselves by a remarkable new poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am trying to go vegetarian but finding myself weak,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eweek to week browsing the meat aisle at a linger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eclose enough to chill my arms to gooseflesh. I only buy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003estuff so processed it hardly makes sense to call it meat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaveloy, nugget, continental frankfurter;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewhatever gets extruded pink beyond possible memory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eof the preceding body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— ‘The Flexitarian’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this dazzling first collection, acclaimed Wellington poet and Canterbury farm-girl Rebecca Hawkes takes a generous bite from the excesses of earthly flesh – first ‘Meat’, then ‘Lovers’. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Meat’ is a coming of age in which pony clubs, orphaned lambs and dairy-shed delirium are infused with playful menace and queer longings. Between bottle-fed care and killing-shed floors, the farm is a heady setting for love and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn ‘Lovers’, the poet casts a wry eye over romance, from youthful sapphic infatuation to seething beastliness. Sentimental intensity is anchored by an introspective comic streak, in which ‘the stars are watching us \/ and boy howdy are they judgemental’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of queasy hungers offers a feast of explosive mince \u0026amp; cheese pies, accusatory crackling, lab-grown meat and beetroot tempeh burger patties, all washed down with bloody milk or apple-mush moonshine. It teems with sensuous life, from domesticated beasts to the undulating mysteries of eels, as Hawkes explores uneasy relationships with our animals and with each other. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTender and brutal, seductive and repulsive, Meat Lovers introduces a compelling new mode of hardcore pastoral.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe old station-holders used to castrate lambs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eto wethers with their teeth – isn’t that your area\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eof interest? Hard men rousing on the muster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eposing the evergreen question: to spit or swallow?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut think how tender those shepherds must have been\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewith their incisive surgery – the cutting kiss –\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eand all that bleating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— ‘Mad Butcher’s Love Song’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40360890466338,"sku":"9781869409630","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/0785\/1042\/products\/Copy-of-Book-Template---2022-04-21T121542-647.jpg?v=1650500176","url":"https:\/\/petronella.pro\/products\/meat-lovers","provider":"Petronella's Gallery and Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}