{"product_id":"terrier-worrier","title":"Terrier, Worrier","description":"\u003cp\u003eA luminous exploration of thought by one of our most distinguished poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf sometimes I think of thoughts as being behind the eyes, sometimes I think of them more as floating, in a kind of cloud around the outside of my head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart autobiography of thought, part philosophical tract, part poetics, a book about chickens and family and seasons, Terrier, Worrier is a literary sequence to be relished as language and as thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Terrier, Worrier is a remarkable and playful book on language, anxiety, poetry and the strangeness of being a person. I loved its short length especially, as well as its fragmentary form falling somewhere between a diary and a collection of poetic essays . . . wish more of my favourite poets wrote these kinds of books.'\u003cbr\u003e- Nina Mingya Powles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Terrier, Worrier is extraordinary, in both concept and form. It joins the conversations of great writers and thinkers, past and present, who analyse how we function aesthetically in our little lives.'\u003cbr\u003e- Anne Kennedy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnna Jackson is the author of seven collections of poetry as well as Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers' Diaries 1915-1962 (Routledge, 2010) and Actions \u0026amp; Travels: How Poetry Works (Auckland University Press, 2022). She lives in Island Bay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and is associate professor in English literature at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnna Jackson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e84 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 190mm W: 140mm Spine: 7mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46359502848150,"sku":"9781776711666","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/files\/jacket-2026-04-24T084047-820.jpg?v=1776977283","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/terrier-worrier","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}