{"title":"Books by Harry Josephine Giles","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781529066609","title":"Deep Wheel Orcadia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAstrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeep Wheel Orcadia\u003c\/i\u003e is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire – all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; \u003ci\u003eDeep Wheel Orcadia\u003c\/i\u003e now strikes out into audacious new space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204655022258,"sku":"9781529066609","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529066609.jpg?v=1786022175"},{"product_id":"9781739830144","title":"The Poet And The Echo","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaken from the BBC Radio 4 series, each story is the author’s response to a well-loved poem, a new work infused with the passion of a previous writer’s vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the majesty of the Scottish highlands to the lakeside gardens of an Italian palace, from a secondary school under inspection to a spa-break away from carework, this enticing array of stories charm and astonish, conveying us across ten vivid fictional worlds to ask the most intimate questions; how do we balance love and duty? How do we manage in the face of family secrets? As we change while others don’t? As loved ones are taken from us by old age, by mental illness and even by force?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a great spread of countries throughout history, these sumptuous stories show the united wealth of our common humanity, and give a reminder that love and hope spring in the unlikeliest of places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories from David Almond, Leila Aboulela, Fred D’Aguiar, Jenni Fagan, Cathy Forde, Harry Josephine Giles, Pippa Goldschmidt, Jessie Greengrass, Hannah Lavery, and PK Lynch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204946854066,"sku":"9781739830144","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781739830144.jpg?v=1786024278"},{"product_id":"9781035025213","title":"Them!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThem!\u003c\/i\u003e by Harry Josephine Giles is an exuberant collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThem!\u003c\/i\u003e Giles excavates the lexicon of sex and gender, singing back with irony, fury and possibility. The visual poetics of \u003ci\u003eThem!\u003c\/i\u003e create an unusually dynamic reading experience as she finds new ways 'to sing, shout and strike in the cracks of what's possible'. We hear from 'the reasonable people' and the bureaucrats; a bewildered worker contemplates the horrors of neoliberalism; a group of women at a quiet dinner encounter a punitive, spectral guest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout, Giles weighs the artist's need for reverie against the noise that surrounds the activist. How to be both? 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In Scots and English, it mucks about with sound poetry, found poetry, computer-generated poetry, dirty poetry and others ways to blur and bust the borders of genre. Its themes are ecology, power and sex: how can you have fun in a system that's trying to take power away from you? \u003ci\u003eThe Games\u003c\/i\u003e makes and breaks rules in an effort to live a full life in a full world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310006317429,"sku":"9781999679200","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781999679200_3bb78155-e086-4172-8983-85bbf468582b.jpg?v=1786031779"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-harry-josephine-giles.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}