{"product_id":"2026100009418-secondhand-neighbours-in-a-thicket","title":"Neighbours In A Thicket","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: DJ: Small tears repaired with tapes, in mylar. Pages: Light foxing on prelims. Markings: Bookseller stamp on fep. Binding remains tight. Clean copy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Neighbours in a Thicket, a landmark poetry collection that announces David Malouf's singular gift for rendering the ordinary world luminous and strange. Drawing on landscapes both intensely local — the subtropical heat and dense bush of Queensland — and cosmopolitan, spanning Italy and Europe, Malouf crafts poems that chart the intricate, sometimes thorny relationships between self and place, between the individual and the communities that surround and define them.\n\nMalouf's verse is notable for its crystalline precision and lyrical restraint, each line weighted with an almost painterly attention to image and sensation. Neighbours in a Thicket established him as a poet of rare emotional intelligence, anticipating the themes of memory, belonging, and cultural identity that would later permeate his celebrated novels. For readers who cherish poetry that rewards slow, careful attention, this collection poses an enduring question: how well do we ever truly know the thicket of lives pressing in around our own?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203104284891,"sku":"2026100009418-SECONDHAND","price":300.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f4bed949-1ab2-4231-937a-e17e3e04257b.png?v=1788143780","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009418-secondhand-neighbours-in-a-thicket","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}