{"product_id":"seasonal-disturbances","title":"Seasonal Disturbances","description":"\u003cem\u003e 'A strange and stunning collection from a true writer. Vulnerable, hilarious and wise, Seasonal Disturbances is a darkly humorous exploration of the human condition.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003eYoung Poet Laureate for London, Warsan Shire\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003eSecond Place Winner of the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry\u003cbr\u003e\n               A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               Following her groundbreaking 2014 début \u003cem\u003eAn Aviary of Small Birds\u003c\/em\u003e (‘technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak’ – \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with \u003cem\u003eSeasonal Disturbances\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cbr\u003e\n               Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence, these poems are charged yet meditative explorations of nature, the city, and the self. A sinister CEO presides over a dystopian hinterland where private detectives investigate crimes against hollyhocks; Halcyon is discovered as a dead kingfisher, washed up on an Italian beach. Lyrical and inventive, McCarthy Woolf’s poems test classic and contemporary forms, from a disrupted zuihitsu that considers her relationship with water, to the landay, golden shovel, and gram of \u0026amp;.\u003cbr\u003e\n               As a fifth-generation Londoner and daughter of a Jamaican émigré, McCarthy Woolf makes a variety of linguistic subversions that critique the rhetoric of the British class system. Political as they may be, these poems are not reportage: they aim to inspire what the author describes as an ‘activism of the heart, where we connect to and express forces of renewal and love’.\u003cbr\u003e\n               Cover Illustration: Nuri R. Melgarejo","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32131789979731,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781784103361_1f4d16e4-bbae-4078-ab93-e5820e10656d.jpg?v=1778526049","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/seasonal-disturbances","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}