{"product_id":"9781854114389","title":"Ingrid's Husband","description":"Here is a book of ghosts, from the mysterious traveller in the title poem who, mistaken for another man, starts to crave his new alter ego: \n\nI have seen leaves migrate\nto parallel lives –\n\nblown through an underpass\nfrom the eastern side\nof a motorway to the west.\n\nPerhaps I should have answered ‘Yes’.'\n\nto the first person of ‘Between Two Bridges’, Henry's long poem on Newport, who follows his teenage ghost across the city for a night:\n\nHe pulls away. The wind puts its lips to an arcade.\nA seagull on a barber's pole waits to open its blades.\n\nHow the living haunt themselves is the concern of Ingrid’s Husband, and the author discovers his spirits through an imagery of absences – a child’s signature in the dust of an old guitar; the stone plinth where a café once stood; a white balloon, drifting down a shopping arcade; a chateau, still furnished with the belongings of its vanished owner … \n\nLove continues to underscore the commonplace in Paul Henry's fifth collection – How many years did I waste \/ listening out for your voice? ('The Waiting Room') and this lyric poet's distinctive voice will continue to haunt its readers.","brand":"Paul Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52492701925640,"sku":"9781854114389","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0945\/8519\/2712\/files\/9781854114389.jpg?v=1770799322","url":"https:\/\/www.ffolio.wales\/products\/9781854114389","provider":"ffolio.wales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}