{"product_id":"touched","title":"Touched","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the initial sequence of this pamphlet, and following short lyrics, the writer explores the experience of living with long-term, and severe mental states. There is no safe haven of medical ''pathology'' here, but an urgent rite of passage for the damaged and conflicted soul. A form of modern Purgatory-escaping the grasping jaws of Inferno, to find itself stumbling towards a rarefied, yet earthy, Paradiso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Marriott''s marvellous poems inhabit rather than observe nature - in fact they do both - but are as much concerned with the human condition. They work in the area of what Hopkins called instress. The voice is calm, contained and precise, as when he watches a Pond Skater, \"So perilous \/ this thin meniscus - \/ six legs spread out\". The poems too seem to tremble on the water of their vision.\u003cbr\u003e- George Szirtes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313289306494,"sku":"NW9781788641364","price":6.63,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781788641364.jpg?v=1778591914","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/touched","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}