{"product_id":"9780571327393","title":"Nights in the Iron Hotel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Hofmann, Michael \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLanguage\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 21 January 2016 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 48 pages\u003cbr\u003e133 x 198 x 6 | 76g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Hofmann, a much-praised contributor to Poetry Introduction 5, was born in Germany in 1957 but brought up in Britain. Nights in the Iron Hotel,  which won the author a Cholmondeley Award in 1984, is his first  full-length volume. Hofmann's poems are marked by a classical authority,  a formidable ironic intelligence, wide-ranging subject matter and a  unique tone of voice. 'You move the fifty-seven muscles it takes to  smile,' Hofmann writes in a poem whose subject is sexual tension - and  immediately the reader recognises a world in which emotions are not the  usual poetic counters but something truer, more complex and more  painful. This quality of disenchantment is served by a deceptively  laconic style of measured brio.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925160788227,"sku":"9780571327393","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780571327393_63f856a4-b3eb-4088-861f-71490d9e2f70.jpg?v=1731417090","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9780571327393","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}