{"id":221,"date":"2016-10-04T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/?post_type=product&#038;p=221"},"modified":"2023-11-08T22:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T22:10:19","slug":"surveyors-riddles","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/product\/surveyors-riddles\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveyors&#8217; Riddles"},"content":{"rendered":"Here are the famously gnomic and prophetic <em>Surveyors&#8217; Riddles<\/em>, newly translated for a modern audience to puzzle on, dabble with and divine from. <strong>Giles Goodland<\/strong> and <strong>Alistair Noon<\/strong> have taken the rules of genetic poem-sequencing to a geological extreme, and in so doing, they have bored from the rock of literary hardcore a sequence of gneissic quality \u2013 sparkling with allusions to the contemporary, the historical and the alt-historical. Just remember to let someone know where you&#8217;re going before you enter.\r\n<h2>About the Authors<\/h2>\r\n<strong>Giles Goodland<\/strong> is the author of <em>Gloss<\/em> (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2014) and <em>What the Things Sang<\/em> (Shearsman, 2012) as well as several chapbooks of poetry and articles on Early Modern English lexis. Born in 1964, he lives in London, and works in Oxford.\r\n\r\n<strong>Alistair Noon<\/strong> is the author of <em>Earth Records<\/em> (2012) and <em>The Kerosene Singing<\/em> (2015), both from Nine Arches Press, as well as a dozen chapbooks of poetry and translations from Germany and Russia. Born in 1970, he lives in Berlin, where he works as a translator.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<span class=\"authors\">by Giles Goodland and Alistair Noon<\/span>\r\n\r\nExcavated, decoded and sequenced, the legendary Surveyors&#8217; Riddles come to light. Giles Goodland and Alistair Noon are our guides and translators across a swooping sequence of dark vignettes. Fragments of political dissent mutate into micro-observation, causing time itself to bend under pressure. Head underground with this wickedly funny collaboration.\r\n\r\n60pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-21-5\r\n\r\n<strong>Please note: Due to customs issues, we can no longer ship directly to Europe. European friends, please order from our distributors at <a href=\"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/sidekick-books\">Inpress<\/a> or through your local bookshop.<\/strong>","protected":false},"featured_media":2404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[810,811],"product_tag":[870,859,816,814],"class_list":{"0":"post-221","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_cat-team-ups-books","8":"product_tag-archaeology","9":"product_tag-collaboration","10":"product_tag-history","11":"product_tag-poetry","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}