{"product_id":"solace-of-artemis","title":"Solace Of Artemis","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatterns and patterning - cellular, celestial, social, political and personal - spin and weave through Paula Meehan''s new collection of poems. From the mythic to the mundane, her attention is given over to the examination of interconnected lives - her own, the lives of her family, the human ecology of her native Dublin - and the unfolding of pattern-cycles in the non- human world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeehan''s familiar impulse towards blessing and empathy is shadowed in these poems with a clear-sighted understanding that the human perspective is neither privileged nor superior, an awareness that much if not most of existence is indifferent to our all-too-human dramas. Nevertheless, explorations of family, of her own mortality, of the lives of long-dead tenement dwellers, shift and shine in a web of stories that speak to a stubborn human endurance that is sometimes heroic, sometimes tragic - and occasionally transcendent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as new poems, this collection integrates Museum (2019), a sequence commissioned for the Dublin Tenement Museum, and For the Hungry Ghosts (2022), a poem cycle responding to the Hades episode of Joyce''s Ulysses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57402069778814,"sku":"NW9781915629159","price":10.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781915629159.jpg?v=1778660600","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/solace-of-artemis","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}