{"product_id":"shrines-of-upper-austria","title":"Shrines of Upper Austria","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of a 2019 Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Recommendation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               Shortlisted for the 2019 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2019 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003cbr\u003e\n               Wandering in central Europe, a traveller observes and records a landscape of lakes, folk culture and uneasy histories. Phoebe Power’s \u003cem\u003eShrines of Upper Austria\u003c\/em\u003e gathers numerous stories and perspectives, such as the fragmented narrative of an Austrian woman who married a British soldier after the Second World War, and the voices of schoolchildren and immigrants. Strange discoveries are made: a grave for two dead goats; a lantern procession on the night of Epiphany; a baby abandoned by a river; a homemade frog-puppet.\u003cbr\u003e\n               The poems are a collage of stories and histories, set in a variety of forms and registers. They are attentive to local detail, rich in the names of people and places – Marija, Omegepta, Eck 4 and the Loser Mountain. Mixing poetry and prose, image and narrative, German and English, Power’s poems are a celebration of creativity in unlikely places. Against a disquieting backdrop of mild winters and memories of snow, they invite us to question what it means to feel at once a stranger and at home. \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n               \u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32093500571731,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781784105341.jpg?v=1780390828","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/shrines-of-upper-austria","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}