{"product_id":"9780571333820","title":"The Noise of a Fly","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Dunn, Douglas \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLanguage\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 September 2019 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 88 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 4 | 118g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and a self-deprecating humour, as well as with a charming, 'Larkinesque' crankiness: a quarrel with ageing, an impatience with youth, the grievousness of losing friends and colleagues. But for all its intimate, hearthside rumination, this is a volume of poems that looks outward in equal measure: at Scottish independence, British politics and an international refugee crisis, and reflects unflinchingly on what it is to consider oneself a contributor to society. Penned with a dexterous wit and a steady nerve, The Noise of a Fly is a mesmeric imagining of our later years by one of this country's most senior and celebrated writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It is hard to think of many poets who can equal his combination of imaginative ambition, formal resource and range of tone . . . Written on these terms, poetry is a matter of permanent urgency.' Sean O'Brien'The most respected Scottish poet of his generation.' Nicholas Wroe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925397078275,"sku":"9780571333820","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780571333820_048554cd-64b6-42a3-a98e-ae4e7251270e.jpg?v=1731417565","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9780571333820","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}