{"product_id":"the-empty-grandstand-paperback","title":"The Empty Grandstand - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLloyd Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wild secrets of boyhood is where Lloyd Jones sets off in his first book of poetry; intoxicated with images, and invoking dream spaces where language is forever in play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLloyd Jones was seven years old the first time he climbed high into a grandstand to watch rugby with his father. The experience was baptismal. From his new elevated perspective Jones believed he could see everything that mattered - a field of play that rolled out, green with promise, from suburban New Zealand to the wider world.\u003cbr\u003eThe grandstand is a guiding metaphor for these questing narrative poems that reach back into childhood and forward into the life of a writer constantly experimenting with form and voice.\u003cbr\u003eJones writes of the wild secrets of boyhood - riding dogs, falling from trees, destroying the class ukuleles, learning to sail in small boats. He is alert to the airless small-town grievances that must inevitably be escaped.\u003cbr\u003eAs an aspiring young writer Jones travelled widely, testing his identity against difference - places, people, politics and importantly, language.\u003cbr\u003eThe more recent poems are a re-assembling of coordinates and a return to the local view. The grandstand has long been decommissioned - it's a housing estate now, but the poems are full of air and greenery. Dream spaces where language is forever in play.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 118\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.27 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752028471584,"sku":"9780645984019","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f1d5b34b1b2e425b6375ea05663b83fb.webp?v=1779986060","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-empty-grandstand-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}