{"product_id":"a-year-in-the-new-life","title":"A Year in the New Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Jack Underwood has developed an utterly clear lyric that rebukes moral obviousness, drives against false certainty. It's as refreshing as it is instructive . . . Underwood has become one of my favorite poets.' Kaveh Akbar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack Underwood's poetry debut, \u003ci\u003eHappiness\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), was celebrated for its unconventional and daring tone: 'conversational, arresting . . . weird, singular' (\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e). Such qualities are on accomplished display in this anticipated new collection, as the poems mature and move on to a wide range of preoccupations, including imminent societal collapse and public unrest; the limits, myths and complexities of masculinity and fatherhood; and uncanny, often amusing scenarios, such as serving drinks to a gathering of fifteen babies or group kissing in Empathy Class. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout, incongruous and domestic subjects realign in skewed lyrics and thought experiments, intimately expressed in 'a new language \/ of the familiar' ('The Landing'). All is presented with a generosity and tenderness that makes the poet so unmistakable - and indispensable for the strange times in which we live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I was done in by these poems, but I really lived as I read them; each one holding life and time in a balletics of stress and flow.' Holly Pester\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39458133803091,"sku":"9780571367252","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571367252_ef262a6d-f6e7-4d45-b601-74540886f376.jpg?v=1778904955","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/a-year-in-the-new-life","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}