{"product_id":"2026770000839-secondhand-selected-poems","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compelling collection from one of mid-twentieth-century Britain's most emotionally raw and psychologically intense poets, Selected Poems gathers Thomas Blackburn's most powerful verse into a single, essential volume. Blackburn's work chronicles the turbulent inner landscape of a man wrestling with personal demons, mental illness, and spiritual yearning, drawing on his own harrowing experiences to produce poetry of striking confessional honesty. Influenced by the Romantic tradition yet deeply rooted in the anxieties of the modern age, his poems present a voice that is simultaneously anguished and transcendent, dark and luminous. The collection illustrates his mastery of formal verse alongside more open, searching forms, demonstrating a range that places him in conversation with contemporaries such as Robert Graves and Ted Hughes. Readers drawn to confessional and post-war British poetry will find in these pages a deeply human voice that refuses easy consolation, demanding instead a full reckoning with suffering and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48826077741275,"sku":"2026770000839-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6e49f0c1-c1a1-4f3d-bb8c-ad05a700c16d.png?v=1780312172","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026770000839-secondhand-selected-poems","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}