{"product_id":"her-birth","title":"Her Birth","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2015 Warwick Prize for Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003eSelected for Next Generation Poets 2014 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               In 2007 Rebecca Goss’s newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein’s Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHer Birth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a book-length sequence of poems beginning with Ella’s birth, her short life and her death, and ending with the joys and complexities that come with the birth of another child. Goss navigates the difficult territory of grief and loss in poems that are spare, tender and haunting: ‘Going home, back down \/ the river road, will be a foreign route without her’.\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003eIt must be at once the most painfully personal and the most restrained and sparsely written poetry collection of the year... It's poetry of witness. The language is simple; the images are simple; the feeling is all. It's feeling no one wants to have, and it is handled with immense grace.\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaty Evans-Bush, \u003cem\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003eSomething close to a poetic journal, the poems are by turns meditativeand bewildered, uttered in the quietest of delicately weighted language, as if the failing child and the experience alike could not bear too much pressure or noise. What transformations there are, are tentative and quietly sustained.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003eJane Draycott, \u003cem\u003eCanto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003eShe [writes] with astonishing success, to which the key is a brilliant sparseness consistently adding up to more than the sum of its parts. Her linguistic tact and her judgement never falter...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLawrence Sail, \u003cem\u003eWarwick Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003eThe poems have an almost unbearable beauty...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Kennedy, poetrywivenhoe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003eThe poems in \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHer Birth\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eunfold their story of love, loss and grief for a baby daughter with pared-down precision and scorching intensity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003eHelen Dunmore\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32027332509779,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781847772381_b69e09e2-6599-4804-be1d-abd96b9c1c1d.jpg?v=1765783842","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/her-birth","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}