{"product_id":"tiger-girl","title":"Tiger Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePascale Petit''s Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of her previous work to explore her grandmother''s Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles.\u003c\/b\u003e Tiger girl is the grandmother, with her tales of wild tigers, but she''s also the endangered predators Petit encountered in Central India. In exuberant and tender ecopoems, the saving grace of love in an otherwise bleak childhood is celebrated through spellbinding visions of nature, alongside haunting images of poaching and species extinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiger Girl \u003c\/i\u003eis Pascale Petit''s eighth collection, and her second from Bloodaxe, following \u003ci\u003eMama Amazonica\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Royal Society of Literature''s Ondaatje Prize 2018 - the first time a poetry book won this prize for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry best evoking the spirit of a place - and the inaugural Laurel Prize 2020. Four of her earlier collections were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2021 (Poetry)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316386963838,"sku":"NW9781780375267","price":10.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781780375267.jpg?v=1779358193","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/tiger-girl","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}