{"product_id":"bonjour-mr-inshaw","title":"Bonjour Mr Inshaw","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBonjour Mr Inshaw\u003c\/i\u003e is a homage by the award-winning poet Peter Robinson to David Inshaw, the celebrated painter, whom he first met during the artist’s years as Creative Arts Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the mid-1970s. Largely produced in an unexpected burst of inspiration after a visit to the painter’s studio in Devizes early in 2019, these poems combine memories of Inshaw’s paintings, or characteristic English landscapes, with experiences of his company and conversation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShowing a formal flexibility and deftness characteristic of this poet’s work, they reflect on the role of art in a time of political and cultural division. Presented in an \u003ci\u003een face \u003c\/i\u003eformat, \u003ci\u003eBonjour Mr Inshaw \u003c\/i\u003ebeautifully illustrates its ekphrastic encounters and allows us to reflect in turn on this contemporary example of the centuries-old dialogue between the arts of poetry and painting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Following the visionary traditions of such quintessentially English predecessors as Samuel Palmer … or Stanley Spencer … Inshaw’s paintings discover the mystical in what could just as easily be overlooked as the mundane.’ – Rachel Campbell-Johnston, art critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Robinson is the finest poet alive when it comes to the probing of shifts in atmosphere, momentary changes in the weather of the mind, each poem an astonishingly fine-tuned gauge for recording the pressures and processes that generate lived occasions’ – Adam Piette in \u003ci\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316089430398,"sku":"NW9781909747562","price":13.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781909747562.jpg?v=1778717538","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/bonjour-mr-inshaw","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}