{"product_id":"deaths-of-the-poets-paperback","title":"Deaths of the Poets","description":"From Chatterton’s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats’ death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood; from Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen or John Berryman’s leap from a bridge onto the frozen Mississippi, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work. The post-Romantic myth of the dissolute drunken poet – exemplified by Thomas and made iconic by his death in New York – has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture. Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in control, but poets should be melancholic, doomed and self-destructive. Is this just a myth, or is there some essential truth behind that great poems only come when a poet's life is pushed right to an emotional knife-edge of acceptability, safety, security? What is the price of poetry? In this book, two contemporary poets undertake a series of journeys – across Britain, America and Europe – to the death places of poets of the past, in part as pilgrims, honouring inspirational writers, but also as investigators, interrogating the myth. The result is a book that is, in turn, enlightening and provocative, eye-wateringly funny and powerfully moving.","brand":"Thryft Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":39358164369489,"sku":"PR502","price":12.39,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":39358164402257,"sku":"PR502","price":9.91,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":39420569714769,"sku":"PR502","price":8.92,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Well Read","offer_id":39358164435025,"sku":"PR502","price":7.93,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0110\/0598\/4849\/files\/35103137.jpg?v=1717792823","url":"https:\/\/thryft.sbs\/products\/deaths-of-the-poets-paperback","provider":"Thryft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}