{"product_id":"emerald-2","title":"Emerald","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Here in deep earth, the black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eblossom of mourning still sifting within me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI remembered that emerald was my birthstone \u003c\/i\u003e…’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the riches of emerald lore, Padel follows the glint of green – ‘green for awakening \/ for bringing life back from the dead’ – from memories of her mother, a naturalist, to the black honeycomb of a Colombian emerald mine and sunset-pink of the Emerald City, Jaipur. Beneath everything shines the jewel itself, ‘the only stone in which the flaws are prized’. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully carved and cadenced, \u003ci\u003eEmerald\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving chronicle of value and loss, and a celebration of all that is precious in the life that remains.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57463568335230,"sku":"NW9781784741075","price":11.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781784741075.jpg?v=1779998534","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/emerald-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}