{"product_id":"crowd-voltage","title":"Crowd Voltage","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn McCullough's \u003cem\u003eCrowd Voltage\u003c\/em\u003e addresses yearnings for community. It probes fragmentation within groups and individuals – disturbances within the body of the crowd and the crowd of the body. Engaging with working-class and queer experiences, the poems move between solitude and togetherness, haunted by ghosts from history as they dream of unity and discover joy in deserted corners. To be common here is to share not only qualities but stories with many others – to be classed alongside people with similar origins and become connected also to what is commonplace in the world of animals and plants, days and tables. Sky and sea dominate as the speakers search for oneness and completion, confronted by vast silences and the shadow of Brighton’s collapsing West Pier. John McCullough has published four previous collections, one with Salt and three with Penned in the Margins, most recently, the Costa-shortlisted \u003cem\u003eReckless Paper Birds \u003c\/em\u003e(2019), winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and \u003cem\u003ePanic Response \u003c\/em\u003e(2022), which included his long poem 'Flowers of Sulphur', shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloodaxe Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56192002359640,"sku":"9781780377810","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781780377810_8ca3f32e-75a8-41a9-bf8c-54b44d496373.jpg?v=1778292954","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/crowd-voltage","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}