{"product_id":"murmuration-1","title":"Murmuration","description":"\u003cp\u003eand it was in these bare sands \/ that you fell, \/ beloved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen John Baglow''s partner Marianne MacKinnon died in 2006, he decided to assemble a new collection of poems in her memory. No one else knew of what proved to be a slow-moving ambition, but a member of the family mentioned one evening that Marianne had appeared in a dream, saying, “Tell John to finish my book.” After that, what choice did he have?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a famous photograph by James Crombie, a murmuration of starlings takes, for a magical moment, the shape of a giant bird. This is the metaphor that best describes the collection: individual poems moving together in liquid formation, arcing and swooping as they will, and for perhaps just a singular moment assuming the outline of the author, helplessly ever-changing. Some of these poems, inspired by love, grief, and wonder, have been tucked away for years; others are freshly written. All here find their place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no narrative in \u003cem\u003eMurmuration\u003c\/em\u003e, no chronology. Nor are the many personal remembrances and representations in the book confined to one person. Nevertheless, together they are one way of seeing, one way of being. Marianne would approve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305840157054,"sku":"NW9780228018483","price":15.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780228018483.jpg?v=1778518569","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/murmuration-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}