{"product_id":"9781922146502-secondhand-unbelievers-or-the-moor","title":"Unbelievers, or The Moor","description":"\nJohn\nMateer's previous poetry book  Southern\nBarbarians  traced the influence of the Portuguese empire in the Indian\nOcean - it was shortlisted for the PM's Award for Poetry and the NSW and\nVictorian Premiers' Literary Awards.  Unbelievers,\nor The Moor  takes this exploration one step further, to recover its Arabic\nand Islamic origins in Al-Andalus, the Moorish state which occupied much of\npresent-day Spain and Portugal from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries. A\nseat of learning and culture, which combined Muslim, Christian and Jewish\ninfluences, it provides a model for Mateer's own mixed background as a South\nAfrican Australian, and for his nomadic identity as a poet. The collection is\nmuch concerned with influential but invisible histories; with the poem as a\nmoment of connection between languages and cultures, so that it seems already\nto exist in translation; with doubles and hauntings, friends in far places, and\nabove all, what Mateer calls 'the irony of Elsewhere'.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49180937486555,"sku":"9781922146502-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2a7aea7f-3212-468a-b854-8de2a09a4f49.jpg?v=1787657451","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781922146502-secondhand-unbelievers-or-the-moor","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}