{"product_id":"collected-poems-by-margaret-scott","title":"'Collected Poems' by Margaret Scott","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"486\"\u003eMargaret Scott’s \u003cem data-start=\"17\" data-end=\"34\"\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e gathers work from a poet of migration, weather, illness, memory and Tasmanian landscape.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"486\"\u003eScott was British-born and became a major Tasmanian literary figure; the poems carry that double sense of arrival and estrangement, attentive to place without turning landscape into postcard scenery. Houses, gardens, snow, hospitals, children, ghosts, mothers, migration, language and aging recur as charged surfaces. They are keepers of lucid restraint, grief is held in the hand rather than waved around, beauty allowed to stay slightly cold, image doing the thinking before explanation wakes up and peers in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"1012\"\u003eA strong local poetry object. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1023\" data-end=\"1306\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMontpelier Press paperback, 2000. Collected poems by Margaret Scott; published in Tasmania with support from Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council. Light cover and edge wear visible; pages appear clean and readable. Solid copy of a relatively uncommon Australian poetry collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44657793040467,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-26T101438.398.png?v=1779754492","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/collected-poems-by-margaret-scott","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}