{"product_id":"the-empty-grandstand","title":"The Empty Grandstand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lloyd Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e The Empty Grandstand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2024-09-03\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e The Wild Secrets Of Boyhood Is Where Lloyd Jones Sets Off In His First Book Of Poetry; Intoxicated With Images, And Invoking Dream Spaces Where Language Is Forever In Play. Lloyd Jones Was Seven Years Old The First Time He Climbed High Into A Grandstand To Watch Rugby With His Father. The Experience Was Baptismal. From His New Elevated Perspective Jones Believed He Could See Everything That Mattered - A Field Of Play That Rolled Out, Green With Promise, From Suburban New Zealand To The Wider World. The Grandstand Is A Guiding Metaphor For These Questing Narrative Poems That Reach Back Into Childhood And Forward Into The Life Of A Writer Constantly Experimenting With Form And Voice. Jones Writes Of The Wild Secrets Of Boyhood - Riding Dogs, Falling From Trees, Destroying The Class Ukuleles, Learning To Sail In Small Boats. He Is Alert To The Airless Small-town Grievances That Must Inevitably Be Escaped. As An Aspiring Young Writer Jones Travelled Widely, Testing His Identity Against Difference - Places, People, Politics And Importantly, Language. The More Recent Poems Are A Re-assembling Of Coordinates And A Return To The Local View. The Grandstand Has Long Been Decommissioned - It's A Housing Estate Now, But The Poems Are Full Of Air And Greenery. Dream Spaces Where Language Is Forever In Play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780645984019\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 8.27 Inches, Length: 5.91 Inches, Weight: 0.37037660016 Pounds, Width: 0.28 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lloyd Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863284023603,"sku":"9780645984019","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/27285763482417.jpg?v=1754193561","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/the-empty-grandstand","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}