{"product_id":"brand-new-dark","title":"Brand New Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry Bank Choice.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mark Waldron’s debut collection \u003cem\u003eThe Brand New Dark\u003c\/em\u003e is a book about sex, eyes, eggs, dogs, death and sausages. It is a book concerned with our loss of faith in language, a book about our place in the world, about sex and love and a pair of puppets called Dougal and Florence. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eThis surreal, absurd and entertaining collection mixes the formal with the colloquial, the tragic and the comic, the intensely personal and the comically detached, in a style which is startlingly original without being obscure. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eFunny, dark, disconcerting and moving, often all at the same time, the poems are refreshingly direct, spoken in a way that seems to implicate the reader in their situations and discomfiting stories. \u003cem\u003eThe Brand New Dark\u003c\/em\u003e is above all an entertaining collection of accessible poems. A book for all the people who don’t like poetry as well as for the people who do.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224173760856,"sku":"9781844718177","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781844718177_b1e1e9f6-4fbc-468c-b92b-c90cbb28ca01.jpg?v=1764999938","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/brand-new-dark","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}