{"product_id":"the-grid-1","title":"Grid","description":"\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Poetry Book of the Month August 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Grid\u003c\/i\u003e is\n about the end of worlds, ancient and modern. In three sequences of \npoems interspersed with Mandel's own translations from classical texts, \nfigures of obsession and loneliness try to decrypt what Maurice Blanchot\n called 'the writing of the disaster'. Like a detective novel, the title\n sequence pieces together archival fragments into a lyric essay about \nAlice Kober, the half-forgotten scholar behind the decipherment of the \nancient writing system called Linear B. Across different wartimes, \nMandel adapts the typography and formatting of archived papers, their \noverlaps and errors and aporias, which compel readers to invest \ncreatively in the very act of reading, learning new ways into language \nas they go.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe leaps between past and present work in dialogue \nlike a series of exhilarating stepping stones. This is a collection of \nwhat, though sometimes written as prose, turn out to be poems. From \nOvid's bitter letters of exile to the prime minister's letters of \ninstruction to nuclear submarine captains, \u003ci\u003eThe Grid\u003c\/i\u003e tells a \nseries of stories about four thousand years of apocalypse. Strange, \nhumane, and deeply rooted in the ancient world, Mandel's first book \nsurveys the ruins of the West with no nostalgia.","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46852099277144,"sku":"9781800173293","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781800173293_2377445c-1358-4b5b-87ef-ebddafb1e730.jpg?v=1764706532","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-grid-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}