{"product_id":"overlap","title":"Overlap","description":"\u003cp\u003eValerie Bence’s latest poetry pamphlet is a testament to ordinary lives, and a meditation on grandmothers. Part memoir, part family history, \u003ci\u003eOverlap \u003c\/i\u003eis a series of vivid vignettes from the poet’s childhood, courtship, motherhood and grandmotherhood, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinifred and Harriet are at the heart of this book: Bence’s grandmothers, whose hardy, steadfast lives she comes to reflect on as she too becomes a grandmother, in very different times. Stranded from her family in the Covid-19 pandemic, the poet conjures up their ghosts, walks in their footsteps and – sometimes – feels herself become them.\u003cbr\u003e \u0026gt; We mash tealeaves and bran for the rabbit, \u003cbr\u003e \u0026gt; the sweet aroma fogging her glasses, \u003cbr\u003e \u0026gt; and every day, for five shillings a week, \u003cbr\u003e \u0026gt; she scrubs bloody butcher’s aprons. \u003cbr\u003e \u0026gt; We take the clean ones back on the bus, \u003cbr\u003e \u0026gt; until the day she faints outside Boots in the rain, \u003cbr\u003e \u0026gt; sliding down the wall like in a cartoon, \u003cbr\u003e \u0026gt; her wartime hat slipping over her eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313305264510,"sku":"NW9781912915941","price":9.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781912915941.jpg?v=1778592070","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/overlap","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}