{"product_id":"enter-the-water","title":"Enter the Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN OBSERVER BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Totally compelling, \u003ci\u003eEnter The Water\u003c\/i\u003e pulls you along like a current. Gentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid, it wanders like our narrator and shows us both nature and the city through new eyes . . . This book will sneak up on you and leave its music long ringing in your ears' Cecilia Knapp\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eEnter the Water \u003c\/i\u003eis both visceral and perceptive, a discomfort formulated in great tenderness and pain' Bhanu Kapil  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Enter the Water\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e has horizons and wit and allusion and rhyme and disenchanted politics and birds, and lines that hit the reader right in the heart . . . The writing is original and perfectly pitched . . . A significant debut' Ian Patterson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ei sat in a chapel the other night in my big gay coat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003etalking to a god whose answer is only sometimes no\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eno that was a lie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ethe house of god was closed the night i needed him\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ei sat outside on the granite steps of a fountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ehappily pouring itself an eternal supply\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eENTER THE WATER follows a young man who becomes homeless when he is evicted from his flat in Cambridge during the turbulent early months of 2022. As the wind stirs, our narrator embarks on a journey from his park bench out towards the coast, wrapped in his 'big gay coat', accompanied by his pigeons, a blackbird and Storm Eunice - 'Nature' in colourfully alive and playful forms. Along the way he searches for a beauty inherent to all of us, and then calls us to reclaim it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eENTER THE WATER is a story invested in care - care towards the environment; towards the political realities of recession and the war in Ukraine; towards the dynamic self, the human whose love for swimming becomes synonymous with self-acceptance and survival; and to everyone, managing to manage. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalking along the edges of our troubled current affairs, animated by a spirit of cheerful protest, this book is an offering and an urgent invitation to exit and re-enter our world - and to celebrate our capacity for courage in times of suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150090486104,"sku":"9781472158185","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781472158185_842d29bf-3e7a-48dc-b6c7-211c9701d737.jpg?v=1764431137","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/enter-the-water","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}