{"product_id":"new-arcana","title":"New Arcana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith a cover by renowned comic book artist Lisa Sterle, the poems in \u003c\/span\u003eJessica Traynor’s \u003ci\u003eNew Arcana\u003c\/i\u003e explore grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMoving from teenage friendship and destructive relationships towards a tangling with the realities of family life, domesticity, and desire, this highly inventive collection builds into a heartbroken letter to a dear friend (personified in the poems as ‘lydia deetz’) who died by suicide. Interwoven with numbered poems from a newly imagined Major Arcana, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Arcana \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecelebrates both the holding on, and the letting go. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong other awards, Jessica Traynor has received Hennessy New Writer of the Year and the Lawrence O''Shaughnessy Award for Poetry 2023. \u003ci\u003eNew Arcana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her fourth collection, following \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiffey Swim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2014) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2019) from Dedalus and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePit Lullabies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2022) from Bloodaxe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57398397534590,"sku":"NW9781780377490","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781780377490.jpg?v=1778621273","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/new-arcana","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}