{"product_id":"still-city-a-diary-of-an-invasion","title":"Still City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2025\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection 2025\u003cbr\u003eHighly Commended in the Forward Prizes 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill City\u003c\/i\u003e, Oksana Maksymchuk's debut in English, reflects \nlife in the wake of extreme and unpredictable violence. Inevitably, \nthere are dramatic shifts in perspective: this diary of an invasion \nrecreates the mood and tone of the context within which a poet's \nimagination must make sense of the change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on various sources, including social media, the news, witness\n accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, \nintercepted communication, and official documents, Maksymchuk tells the \nshared experience. The book began 'as a poetic journal I started keeping\n in my hometown of Lviv, Ukraine in 2021–22. In the months leading up to\n the full-scale invasion, my writing has been registering how ways of \nliving, thinking, and feeling have been changing due to the anticipation\n of a catastrophe, imbuing the everyday rituals with the sense of \nfinality and precarity. While we, as a family and a community, made \npreparations for air strikes, as well as nuclear, chemical, and \nbiological warfare, our relationships transformed, as did our sense of \ntime, fate, and personhood.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47881781969240,"sku":"9781800174023","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781800174023.jpg?v=1764873014","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/still-city-a-diary-of-an-invasion","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}