{"product_id":"isdal","title":"ISDAL","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Dickey, Susannah \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 14\/09\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 112 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781035015054,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe much-anticipated debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISDAL is a timely interrogation of the true crime genre. In the first of its three parts, we follow the flirty co-presenters of a podcast about the mystery of 'Isdal Woman', whose burnt remains were discovered in Norway in 1970 and who has never been identified. At the centre of the book is a philosophical enquiry into our perennial obsession with female victims, sexiness, and death: 'The death in question has already occurred', the poet observes, 'has occurred to someone sufficiently abstract as to allow us to romp gainfully, guilelessly, guiltlessly through a simulacrum of death's corridors'. The free verse poems in the final section both explore and-perhaps inevitably-enact the ethical ambiguities of the genre. Witty, excoriating, formally ingenious, ISDAL marks the arrival of a thrilling new talent in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43104984924204,"sku":"9781035015054","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781035015054.jpg?v=1713021452","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/isdal","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}