{"product_id":"9781784741075","title":"Emerald","description":"An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel‘Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone …’Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel’s heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven.Exploring the riches of emerald lore, Padel follows the glint of green – ‘green for awakening \/ for bringing life back from the dead’ – from memories of her mother, a naturalist, to the black honeycomb of a Colombian emerald mine and sunset-pink of the Emerald City, Jaipur. Beneath everything shines the jewel itself, ‘the only stone in which the flaws are prized’. Beautifully carved and cadenced, Emerald is a moving chronicle of value and loss, and a celebration of all that is precious in the life that remains.","brand":"Ruth Padel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050784604478,"sku":"9781784741075","price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781784741075_2084b115-8765-46e3-a1e4-fb781332bb7e.jpg?v=1707623063","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781784741075","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}