{"product_id":"the-summer-meadow","title":"The Summer Meadow","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Instead of a Card' is the idea behind the British publisher Candlestick Press' range of gorgeous small poetry pamphlets. With covers created by leading contemporary artists and poems hand-picked to speak to every kind of reader, all their titles offer a richly rewarding reading journey.  Pamphlets are supplied with an envelope for posting and a bookmark for a special message. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume -\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat could be more evocative of heady summer days than a meadow in all its blowy, flowery glory?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this exquisite prose essay, leading naturalist Miriam Darlington takes us deep into the heart of a local meadow in her beloved Devon. She describes how a “drained and threadbare place” is regenerated, how it slowly fills with flowers, insects, mammals and birds until it is teeming with life – a “patchwork of heaven”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe meadow does its own work, but it is helped by human hands – something that creates a passionate bond between the writer and this special habitat:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I turned myself over to the hot blue sky, lying among eyebright, pimpernel and meadowsweet. My senses attuned to a tide of cricket-sound, the whirring voice of the grassland.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem class=\"is-italic\"\u003efrom ‘The Summer Meadow’ by Miriam Darlington\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are many kinds of meadow, we are told. By paying close attention to the particular, a treasured place is brought to life in all its vivid and unique beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoems by EJ Scovell and Katharine Towers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCover illustration by Niki Bowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCandlestick Press | 2024 | Paperback | 20 pages | 21 x 13.7 x 0.3cm | 70g\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peribo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990241042628,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0908\/7624\/files\/TheSummerMeadow.jpg?v=1774593155","url":"https:\/\/paperparrot.com.au\/products\/the-summer-meadow","provider":"Paper Parrot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}