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{"id":11525306511,"title":"Sometimes a Wild God - the audiobook (read by Tom Hirons)","handle":"sometimes-a-wild-god-sound-recording-mp3","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis recording was made a couple of years ago, the day we took to the road with Hedgespoken. Here's your chance to have it for yourself and help support us in the process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poem itself continues to spread ripples further and further beyond our little home - if you don't know it, perhaps you'd like to take a look over at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/tomhirons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eTom's website\u003c\/a\u003e where the full text is there to read...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe recording is about 8 minutes long. The 2020 mix has balanced the left-right mix, but is otherwise the same as the previous version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover art is, of course, by Rima Staines - it's one of the illustrations from the first edition of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hedgespokenpress.com\/products\/sometimes-a-wild-god\" title=\"Sometimes a Wild God by Tom Hirons - the book\"\u003ethe book\u003c\/a\u003e, and is also featured on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hedgespokenpress.com\/products\/sometimes-a-wild-god-poster\" title=\"Sometimes a Wild God by Tom Hirons (the poster)\"\u003eposter\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2017-10-25T19:31:03+01:00","created_at":"2017-05-28T16:43:55+01:00","vendor":"Hedgespoken Press","type":"Sound recording","tags":["audio","author_Tom Hirons","mp3","poetry","SALE C","sometimes a wild god","Tom Hirons"],"price":150,"price_min":150,"price_max":150,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":300,"compare_at_price_min":300,"compare_at_price_max":300,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":45053753103,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WILD-GOD-MP3","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sometimes a Wild God - the audiobook (read by Tom Hirons)","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":150,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":300,"inventory_quantity":-214,"inventory_management":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","barcode":"HP-WG-MP3","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/wild-god-mp3-cover.jpg?v=1508949695","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/tom-hirons-pic.jpg?v=1508956750"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/wild-god-mp3-cover.jpg?v=1508949695","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":459430330433,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":800,"width":800,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/wild-god-mp3-cover.jpg?v=1508949695"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":800,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/wild-god-mp3-cover.jpg?v=1508949695","width":800},{"alt":null,"id":459647057985,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":900,"width":900,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/tom-hirons-pic.jpg?v=1508956750"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":900,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/tom-hirons-pic.jpg?v=1508956750","width":900}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eThis recording was made a couple of years ago, the day we took to the road with Hedgespoken. Here's your chance to have it for yourself and help support us in the process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poem itself continues to spread ripples further and further beyond our little home - if you don't know it, perhaps you'd like to take a look over at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/tomhirons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eTom's website\u003c\/a\u003e where the full text is there to read...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe recording is about 8 minutes long. The 2020 mix has balanced the left-right mix, but is otherwise the same as the previous version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover art is, of course, by Rima Staines - it's one of the illustrations from the first edition of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hedgespokenpress.com\/products\/sometimes-a-wild-god\" title=\"Sometimes a Wild God by Tom Hirons - the book\"\u003ethe book\u003c\/a\u003e, and is also featured on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hedgespokenpress.com\/products\/sometimes-a-wild-god-poster\" title=\"Sometimes a Wild God by Tom Hirons (the poster)\"\u003eposter\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":1459656392769,"title":"Nettle-Eater - the audiobook (read by Tom Hirons)","handle":"nettle-eater-audiobook","description":"\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eYou were never more lost than you are now, if you cannot reach out, touch the wild earth and weep...\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eLiving wild on Dartmoor, a man eats only nettles. His body disappears; he learns to fly. He encounters demigods and eloquent trees. He is \u003cspan class=\"book-title\"\u003eNettle-Eater\u003c\/span\u003e, crooked, arrogant, self-proclaimed bastard of the moor. This is his testament. By the author of \u003ca href=\"sometimes-a-wild-god\"\u003eSometimes a Wild God\u003c\/a\u003e, also available from Hedgespoken Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eDetails\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eHere is a short excerpt for you, in which our hero develops a changed relationship with Winter during his nettle-fast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/488523525\u0026amp;color=%2315a428\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOTE: this is the audiobook of Nettle-Eater, recorded in Devon by Tom in 2018. For the book, please look \u003ca href=\"nettle-eater\" title=\"Nettle-Eater, the book\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e. The audiobook is just over 25 minutes long - it's an mp3 download.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"book-title\"\u003eNettle-Eater\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a short, sharp prose-howl in the direction of genuine and magical wildness and an uncompromising love-letter to the wild places of Dartmoor. 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His body disappears; he learns to fly. He encounters demigods and eloquent trees. He is \u003cspan class=\"book-title\"\u003eNettle-Eater\u003c\/span\u003e, crooked, arrogant, self-proclaimed bastard of the moor. This is his testament. By the author of \u003ca href=\"sometimes-a-wild-god\"\u003eSometimes a Wild God\u003c\/a\u003e, also available from Hedgespoken Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eDetails\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eHere is a short excerpt for you, in which our hero develops a changed relationship with Winter during his nettle-fast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/488523525\u0026amp;color=%2315a428\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOTE: this is the audiobook of Nettle-Eater, recorded in Devon by Tom in 2018. For the book, please look \u003ca href=\"nettle-eater\" title=\"Nettle-Eater, the book\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e. The audiobook is just over 25 minutes long - it's an mp3 download.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"book-title\"\u003eNettle-Eater\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a short, sharp prose-howl in the direction of genuine and magical wildness and an uncompromising love-letter to the wild places of Dartmoor. Hovering over the pages is the ghost of Milarepa, the Tibetan saint who - it is said - survived on a nettle-diet for seven years, achieved a powerful enlightenment and became Tibet's best-loved bad-kid-turned-good. \u003cspan class=\"book-title\"\u003eNettle-Eater\u003c\/span\u003e is written to be read aloud as a prayer to the wild earth and a reminder to us mortals that our lives are short and on fire and that there is no better time to remember our essential nature than this instant, no better time to discard the masquerade of our civilised lives than now...\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":6711904501825,"title":"Falconer’s Joy · Five Poems - the audiobook","handle":"falconers-joy-audiobook","description":"\u003cp\u003eRead by Tom Hirons (author of \u003cem\u003eSometimes a Wild God\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNettle-Eater\u003c\/em\u003e) this audiobook contains the five poems in \u003cem\u003e\u003ca title=\"Falconer's Joy\" href=\"falconers-joy-five-poems\"\u003eFalconer’s Joy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, with a new afterword by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded in December 2021 in south Devon. 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In between those bookends of time, \u003cem\u003eThe Lapwing Stars\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in \u003cstrong\u003eFiddler's Green Peculiar Parish Magazine #4\u003c\/strong\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Worship of Place\u003c\/em\u003e was originally recorded whilst out on Dartmoor, beside the East Dart, in the early Summer of 2018 and then became text, and this recording is from the book. \u003cem\u003eFalconer's Joy\u003c\/em\u003e was also written in the summer of 2018.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lapwing Stars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Worship of Place\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eMerrivale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eFalconer's Joy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Dead Fathers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCredits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","published_at":"2021-12-29T18:37:03+00:00","created_at":"2021-12-29T18:36:03+00:00","vendor":"Hedgespoken Press","type":"Audiobooks","tags":["audio","author_Tom Hirons","falconer's joy","merrivale","poetry","the dead fathers","the lapwing stars","the worship of place","Tom Hirons"],"price":500,"price_min":500,"price_max":500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39649586479169,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"FALCONER'S-JOY-AUDIO","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Falconer’s Joy · Five Poems - the audiobook","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":-45,"inventory_management":null,"inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/Falconer_sJoy-FivePoems-TomHirons.jpg?v=1640802966"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/Falconer_sJoy-FivePoems-TomHirons.jpg?v=1640802966","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":21278224875585,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1098,"width":1098,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/Falconer_sJoy-FivePoems-TomHirons.jpg?v=1640802966"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1098,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/5534\/products\/Falconer_sJoy-FivePoems-TomHirons.jpg?v=1640802966","width":1098}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eRead by Tom Hirons (author of \u003cem\u003eSometimes a Wild God\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNettle-Eater\u003c\/em\u003e) this audiobook contains the five poems in \u003cem\u003e\u003ca title=\"Falconer's Joy\" href=\"falconers-joy-five-poems\"\u003eFalconer’s Joy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, with a new afterword by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded in December 2021 in south Devon. Cover art by Rima Staines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOTE: Purchasing the audiobook will provide you with a zip file containing the mp3 files and the cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe five poems share themes of mythic slippages, of time unanchoring and of the dead speaking to the living, sometimes the other way round.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1186826974\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe oldest piece, \u003cem\u003eMerrivale\u003c\/em\u003e, was first begun in 2012 and has seen a number of versions down the years; the most recent, \u003cem\u003eThe Dead Fathers\u003c\/em\u003e, was written in September 2018. In between those bookends of time, \u003cem\u003eThe Lapwing Stars\u003c\/em\u003e appeared in \u003cstrong\u003eFiddler's Green Peculiar Parish Magazine #4\u003c\/strong\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Worship of Place\u003c\/em\u003e was originally recorded whilst out on Dartmoor, beside the East Dart, in the early Summer of 2018 and then became text, and this recording is from the book. \u003cem\u003eFalconer's Joy\u003c\/em\u003e was also written in the summer of 2018.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lapwing Stars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Worship of Place\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eMerrivale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eFalconer's Joy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Dead Fathers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCredits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e"}
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