{"product_id":"say-something-back-and-time-lived-without-its-flow","title":"Say Something Back And Time Lived, Without Its Flow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'She's one of the best poets around' Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart poetry collection, part consolation, \u003ci\u003eSay Something Back \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Time Lived, Without Its Flow \u003c\/i\u003ecollects Denise Riley's moving documents of loss and grief together for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRocked by the horrific experience of maternal grief, Denise Riley wrote the much-celebrated \u003ci\u003eSay Something Back, \u003c\/i\u003ein which the poet-philosopher contemplates the natural world and physical law, and considers what it means to invoke those who are absent. These are poems which expand our sense of human speech and what it can mean, of what is drawn forth from us when we address our dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese lyric poems and elegies are accompanied by the beautiful, unflinching \u003ci\u003eTime Lived, Without Its Flow. \u003c\/i\u003eDiary entries written after receiving news of her adult son's death are woven into a life portrait of loss. A ruminative postscript to these diaries follows, in which Riley examines the experience with a philosopher's precision, mapping through it a literature of consolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in a single volume for the first time, \u003ci\u003eSay Something Back \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Time Lived Without Its Flow \u003c\/i\u003eoffers with remarkable grace and insight kind counsel to all those living in the wake of grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Denise Riley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67767632134322,"sku":"9781037428845","price":299.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781037428845.jpg?v=1792544756","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/say-something-back-and-time-lived-without-its-flow","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}