{"product_id":"beltane-at-aphelion","title":"Beltane at Aphelion","description":"Beltane at Aphelion collects all of John Matthias’s longer poems and is published simultaneously with \u003ci\u003eSwimming at Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e, which collects his shorter poems. The volume includes his exuberant experiments from the 1960s, \u003ci\u003ePoem in Three Parts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBucyrus\u003c\/i\u003e, followed by \u003ci\u003eThe Stefan Bathory \u0026amp; Mihail Lermontov Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, his comedic diptych from the 1970s set on a Polish and a Russian ocean liner, and by \u003ci\u003eNorthern Summer\u003c\/i\u003e, his meditation on history and language set in Scotland. It concludes with the three long poems first published in \u003ci\u003eA Gathering of Ways\u003c\/i\u003e which explore ancient paths and river routes in the East Anglian region of Britain and the American Midwest, and, in the most ambitious poem he has yet written, the famous pilgrim trails to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. About the books in which these poems originally appeared, critics and poets have written with enthusiasm.","brand":"John Matthias","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615937159548,"sku":"9780804009836","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780804009836_42df3e84-cc03-4e15-a921-3ae8b23b90ff.jpg?v=1727080877","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/beltane-at-aphelion","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}