{"product_id":"life-expectancy-begins-to-fall","title":"Life Expectancy Begins To Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs your retirement plan dying in the climate wars? Are you getting on with things in the meantime? In \u003cem\u003eLife expectancy begins to fall\u003c\/em\u003e, Tom Sastry asks how we normalise an apocalypse, taking us on a tour of bad coping strategies, unwelcome epiphanies, and striking reminders of what we still have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart-elegy and part-satire, these poems do not show you what to do in a crisis, nor do they promote the cliches of positive thinking that tell you how to be a good worker, an effective activist or a spiritual person. Instead, quietly and persuasively, Sastry develops a subtle meditation on hope. The poetry shows us as we mostly are, lost in the enormity of it all and busy with other things. Explore a world where ‘pessimism is complicated by love’ and optimism is found hiding in moments where ‘nothing happens, in the most lavish way’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395241484670,"sku":"NW9781916760127","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781916760127.jpg?v=1778674225","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/life-expectancy-begins-to-fall","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}