{"product_id":"father-myself","title":"Father Myself","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In* Father Myself*, his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father’s complex illness and death; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn clear-sighted and often hard-hitting poems, McDermott takes the reader onto the frontline of the pandemic – documenting the experience and trauma of a COVID-bereaved family with an unflinching eye. Both powerful and compassionate, these extraordinary poems have the capacity to go beyond simply a record of events, reaching sensitively for the human details that matter – the beat of a heart and movement of breath, the touch of a hand, the words we use for goodbye.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57409587806590,"sku":"NW9781916760103","price":11.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781916760103.jpg?v=1779358024","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/father-myself","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}