{"product_id":"2026200014510-secondhand-a-bone-flute-poems","title":"A Bone Flute: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the quiet literary culture of 1970s Canberra emerges A Bone Flute, a collection of poems by Phillip Martin that resonates with the spare, meditative quality of its striking title — an instrument carved from mortality itself. Published by the Australian National University Press in 1974, this volume presents a carefully wrought body of verse that draws on classical learning, personal introspection, and the textures of the natural world, situating Martin firmly within the tradition of mid-twentieth-century Australian academic poetry.\n\nMartin's work is distinguished by its formal precision and its quiet intellectual intensity, characteristics that align him with a generation of Australian poets who sought to marry European literary traditions with a distinctly Southern Hemisphere sensibility. A Bone Flute rewards the patient reader with layered imagery and a contemplative voice that never overreaches, leaving one to wonder what music, exactly, can be coaxed from the most elemental of materials.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216195428571,"sku":"2026200014510-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/43c64f8b-b0b6-48ce-8421-7ddae507b016.png?v=1788405054","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014510-secondhand-a-bone-flute-poems","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}