{"product_id":"the-curiosities","title":"The Curiosities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Curiosities\u003c\/em\u003e is the eleventh book of poems from this most inventive and celebrated of British poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClustering around the letter 'C', the seventy-some poems that comprise this collection celebrate a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. Here we find tales of cufflinks and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a characteristic sleight of hand, Christopher Reid shifts deftly between seriousness and play, elegy and anarchy in this sometimes-zany, sometimes-haunting compendium of bright-eyed verses. Here and there the story-telling roams and here are tales 'for' friends and loved ones, there are tales 'after' the great poets of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut whoever and whatever the mode of address, these poems are frequently underpinned by a unifying humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Curiosities \u003c\/em\u003eis a temptatious read, full of wisdom and surprise, humour and lament, and is a poignant and convincing reminder that in a world where 'nobody's allowed to live forever', life is for celebrating, and grasping by the collar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher Reid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953363742767,"sku":"9780571322961","price":850.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780571322961.jpg?v=1770799534","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-curiosities","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}