{"product_id":"inspector-inspector","title":"Inspector Inspector","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cbr\u003e\n               Jee Leong Koh writes out of the heart of a contemporary reality most readers are familiar with at second or third hand. He writes of political exile and spiritual homelessness; he understands the perils of war, and the perils of certain kinds of peace. \u003cem\u003eInspector Inspector\u003c\/em\u003e is his second Carcanet book (\u003cem\u003eSteep Tea\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 2015 and chosen as a Best Book of the Year in the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e), and it develops his earlier themes with authority, passion and a sense of possible justice.\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cem\u003eSteep Tea \u003c\/em\u003edialogued with women poets from across the world; \u003cem\u003eInspector Inspector\u003c\/em\u003e struggles with the legacies of fathers, personal, poetic and political. Threaded through the erotic poems and poems based on interviews with fellow Singaporeans living in America are thirteen palinodes in the voice of the speaker's dead father, which he answers when the father's voice falls silent.\u003cbr\u003e\n               Jee Leong Koh's is an inclusive, generous and forgiving imagination, with an enviable mastery of traditional and experimental forms.","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40058162053203,"sku":"9781800172227","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781800172227.jpg?v=1778540418","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/inspector-inspector","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}