{"product_id":"the-midnight-plane","title":"The Midnight Plane","description":"\u003cp\u003ewriters, returns to her first and deepest literary love, poetry. This beautifully curated volume opens with selected work from Kidman's six previous collections, chronologically ordered, and concludes in the present day with a body of exciting new poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Midnight Plane\u003c\/em\u003e comes in to land exactly half a century after the 1975 publication of Kidman's debut book, the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eHoney and Bitters\u003c\/em\u003e. There's a sense in which \u003cem\u003eThe Midnight Plane\u003c\/em\u003eworks like an alternative memoir, offering a poet's immediacy of vision and gift of linguistic precision on a life unfolding in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the first line to the last, \u003cem\u003eThe Midnight Plane\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to human relationships, to connection and disconnection, to the mystery and the majesty of life, to seasons of loss and cycles of renewal. Each of these poems is, in its own way, a midnight plane, flying in the dark, navigating for home in sometimes perilous conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'What I know,' writes Kidman in her generous preface to this landmark collection, 'is that poetry has the power to shake the heart'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiona Kidman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49147212562683,"sku":"9781991348005","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/8176\/3067\/files\/b8b915c38bcce6d81a0f63c2076e470b_jpg.webp?v=1785968937","url":"https:\/\/aureliabooks.co.nz\/products\/the-midnight-plane","provider":"Aurelia Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}