{"product_id":"folk-by-tony-curtis-signed","title":"‘folk’ by Tony Curtis (signed)","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"auto\"\u003eTony Curtis writes in concentric circles, from family into landscape into memory.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eTo do so, the poems move through childhood, old photographs, rural roads, bridges, weather, war and inherited anecdote, until they finally settle where he is satisfied, within folklore. Curtis’s “folk” are made up of bodies, voices and places: parents, neighbours, vanished figures, remembered gestures, the dead continuing to occupy the physical world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe collection has an unshowy documentary quality, but it is alert to the distortions of memory. Poems such as “When I Lay my Hand” fold landscape into grief and inheritance, while elsewhere ordinary objects and local histories become small repositories of collective memory. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArc Publications, Todmorden, 2011. First edition. Paperback. Light shelf wear; internally clean. Inscribed and signed by Tony Curtis on the title page, dated 1 March 2011.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46328297357395,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-17T102458.626.png?v=1789604746","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/folk-by-tony-curtis-signed","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}