{"product_id":"do-i-look-like-an-atmosphere","title":"Do I Look Like an Atmosphere?","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from a line in \u003ci\u003eHôtel du Nord\u003c\/i\u003e, a 1938 film of doomed romance, \u003ci\u003eDo I Look Like an Atmosphere?\u003c\/i\u003e\n brings background into the foreground, and asks us to pay close \nattention to that which we inhabit and change. In these poems the \natmosphere is under our skin and in our bones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReviewing Skoulding’s previous collection, Joey Connolly observed \nthat her work is ‘clever, but it is also pleasurable as poetry, and its \ntheory arises from within.’ Here again, Skoulding’s ingenious, \ninnovative forms evokea natural world newly vulnerable to human actions.\n Faced with the inseparability of the non-human world from the \ndestructiveness of human activity, these poems trace their connection \nacross times and places: the humble mussel connects the coast of north \nWales with fishing communities world-wide, while the calcium of its \nshell is found in the limestone of the Norman castles that colonised \nWales.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56399490679128,"sku":"9781800175389","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781800175389.jpg?v=1778710531","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/do-i-look-like-an-atmosphere","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}