{"product_id":"after-the-formalities","title":"After The Formalities","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA Poetry Society Recommendation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA Guardian Poetry Book of the Year\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOne of The Telegraph''s Best Poetry Books of 2019\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou''s breakthrough collection \u003ci\u003eAfter the Formalities\u003c\/i\u003e. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnaxagorou ''speaks against the darkness'', tracking the male body under pressure from political and historical forces, and celebrates the precarious joy of parenthood. The title poem is a meditation on racism and race science that draws on the poet''s Cypriot heritage and is as uncomfortable as it is virtuosic. Elsewhere, in a sequence of prose poems that shimmer with lyric grace, he writes, ''I''m your father \u0026amp; the only person keeping you alive.''\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316125868414,"sku":"NW9781908058652","price":9.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781908058652.jpg?v=1778717715","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/after-the-formalities","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}