{"product_id":"blood-feather","title":"Blood Feather","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This is McGuinness''s best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBlood Feather\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an ever-present ghost - while lost beyond recall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first section, ''Squeeze the Day'' - a series of deeply moving poems about the author''s mother, displaced between languages - investigates her illness and death; how being bilingual is like having a double, a second self; how each self haunts the other. ''The Noises Things Make When They Leave'' elegises today''s post-industrial landscapes, their people and professions: sidelined by literature, bypassed by globalisation. The final sequence, ''After the Flood'', links the book''s themes, seeking a way of seeing things for the first time and the last time simultaneously. Exploring the gaps between languages and between our selves in language, Patrick McGuinness dreams of a new tense in which the world''s losses are redeemed:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt''s the anniversary of my mother''s death,\u003cbr\u003eand it''s my mother''s birthday -\u003cbr\u003ethe day she short-circuited the tenses,\u003cbr\u003emade the current flow both ways.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA clear-sighted, intimate new poetry collection from the prizewinning author of \u003ci\u003eOther People''s Countries\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Throw me to the Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57405401465214,"sku":"NW9780224098311","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780224098311.jpg?v=1778644020","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/blood-feather","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}