{"title":"Books by Emily Berry","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780571373840","title":"Unexhausted Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnexhausted Time\u003c\/i\u003e inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us ‘like soft rain’, and all the elements are brought closer in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry’s latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lost and yet ‘nothing goes away’. Here life’s innumerable impressions, moods, seasons and \u003ci\u003edéjà vu\u003c\/i\u003es collect and disarrange themselves, while a glowing, companionable ‘I’ travels the mind’s landscapes in hope of refuge and transformation amid these displaced moments in time. Whether one reads \u003ci\u003eUnexhausted Time\u003c\/i\u003e as a long poem to step into or a series of titled and untitled fragments to pick up and cherish, the work is healing and inspiring, always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life’s ‘magic unknownness’. By offering these intangible encounters, Emily Berry more truly presents ‘what being alive is’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Emily Berry has a refreshingly free, not to say incendiary, approach to poetry.’ \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201835040946,"sku":"9780571373840","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571373840.jpg?v=1786015141"},{"product_id":"9780571284054","title":"Dear Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eDear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a collection with a taste for ventriloquy and wickedness, and a flair for vocal cross-dressing, the balance of power is always shifting in an unexpected direction - an ingénue masquerades as a femme fatale, a doctor appears more disturbed than his patient, and parents seem more unruly than their children. Eccentric, intimate, arch, anxious, decadent and sometimes mournful, the book's confiding, conversational voices tell stories recognisable and refracted, carried along by the undercurrent on which the collection ebbs and rides: the anguish and energy brought about by a long-distance love affair, which propels and terrorises and ultimately unites the work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDear Boy is an irresistible and enlivening collection by a new poet of startling and various gifts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291343303029,"sku":"9780571284054","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571284054_0cd1cf0f-da15-4619-9867-5215f1fc8309.jpg?v=1786014513"},{"product_id":"9780571331321","title":"Stranger, Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Berry’s \u003ci\u003eDear Boy\u003c\/i\u003e was described as a ‘blazing debut’, winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. \u003ci\u003eStranger, Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known. But these poems delve deeper again, in their off-kilter and often painful encounter with childhood loss. This is a book of mourning, recrimination, exhilaration and ‘oceanic feeling’: 'A meditation on a want that can never be answered.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56291744022901,"sku":"9780571331321","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571331321_8be0e2a5-1b3a-44ef-b399-b01a05648a00.jpg?v=1786015024"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-emily-berry.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}