{"product_id":"9781913513078","title":"Republic of Dogs\/Republic of Birds","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Stephen Watts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst written on a typewriter in the 1980s, the manuscript for Republic Of Dogs\/Republic Of Birds is an urgent, meditative text of urban and rural language and landscapes. Lost, found again in 2012 and typed onto a laptop with minimal editing, it is a text for and of our dissonant times.Its non-linear narrative moves between London’s Isle of Dogs and the Western Isles of Scotland and is both a topographical journey through two landscapes and a highly personal meditation on the history and geographies of these locations. The writing itself is a form of activism, memorialising eroded cultures through their physical traces and the stories and voices of their inhabitants.Republic Of Dogs\/Republic Of Birds is a lucid memorial text by one of the most astute and sensitiveof writers on the relationship between landscape and time. The author’s distinct and visceral poetic sensibility combines a fierce honesty, rooted in the realities of places he has lived and worked in, with a beautiful and explosive imaginative lyricism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513078. Prototype Publishing. pb. 96 pages.\u003cbr\u003ereprinting\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Prototype Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43919913582749,"sku":"9781913513078","price":32.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/1439\/9645\/files\/9781913513078.jpg?v=1784275303","url":"https:\/\/wholesale.manic.com.au\/products\/9781913513078","provider":"Books at Manic Wholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}