{"product_id":"self-portrait-in-the-dark","title":"Self-Portrait in the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe dark attunes our eyes to detail the light can sometimes conceal; similarly, Colette Bryce’s new poems are ‘slant tellings’ that reveal strange and true reflections. Using a wide range of imaginative strategies, Bryce examines the ways in which time is held, space enclosed – and a life framed and given meaning: a face in a broken mirror, a spider trapped under a glass, or a stolen kiss in a car-wash. Bryce’s two previous prize-winning collections were widely admired for their marvellously seductive music and their speed of thought; Self-Portrait in the Dark widens and deepens the poet’s scope, and is her most emotionally compelling collection to date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Full Indian Rope Trick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘[Bryce’s] poems, sensitive as the needle that registers some distant earth tremor, are delicately poised . . . Bryce’s vision is questing, disquieting, dark . . . as she seeks out the truths of life and love that transform the human heart. This is a confident, complex, subversive collection that shows us the magic by which one becomes a mature poet’ \u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54246535168344,"sku":"9781509839087","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781509839087_4fe786c0-9dc7-4e6c-87a9-15a8033633b2.jpg?v=1769265027","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/self-portrait-in-the-dark","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}