{"product_id":"9780224098311","title":"Blood Feather : ‘He writes with Proustian elan and Nabokovian delight’ John Banville","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): McGuinness, Patrick \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/05\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 80 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780224098311,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves'This is McGuinness's best collection by far, and stands out from the crowd'SUNDAY TIMESIn Blood Feather, a book of doubling and displacement, we see time in a new way: the past, personal and collective, lingering as an ever-present ghost - while lost beyond recall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first section, 'Squeeze the Day' - a series of deeply moving poems about the author's mother, displaced between languages - investigates her illness and death; how being bilingual is like having a double, a second self; how each self haunts the other. 'The Noises Things Make When They Leave' elegises today's post-industrial landscapes, their people and professions: sidelined by literature, bypassed by globalisation. The final sequence, 'After the Flood', links the book's themes, seeking a way of seeing things for the first time and the last time simultaneously. Exploring the gaps between languages and between our selves in language, Patrick McGuinness dreams of a new tense in which the world's losses are redeemed:It's the anniversary of my mother's death,and it's my mother's birthday -the day she short-circuited the tenses,made the current flow both ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA clear-sighted, intimate new poetry collection from the prizewinning author of Other People's Countries and Throw me to the Wolves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41054798381100,"sku":"9780224098311","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780224098311_47c6a330-82b0-493f-ab03-7a280872b7ee.jpg?v=1759667719","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780224098311","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}