{"title":"Books by Jenna Clake","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781398712096","title":"Disturbance","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Wonderfully witchy and emotionally astute' \u003cb\u003eChloë Ashby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Unsettling and atmospheric' \u003cb\u003eHarriet Tyce \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Bloody brilliant' \u003cb\u003eClare Pollard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePropulsive and wry, this razor-sharp debut is perfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eBoy Parts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Rest and Relaxation \u003c\/i\u003eexplores all the ways that relationships and trauma can haunt our lives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the sun sets on a feverishly hot July evening, a young woman spies on her teenage neighbour, transfixed by what looks like an occult ritual to banish an ex-boyfriend. Desperate to expel the claustrophobic memories of her own ex that have followed, the narrator decides to try to hex herself free from her past. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe falls in with the neighbour and her witchy friend, exploring nascent supernatural powers as the boundaries of reality shift in and out of focus. But when the creaks and hums of her apartment escalate into something more violent, she realizes that she may have brought her boyfriend's presence - whether psychological or paranormal  - back to haunt her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eREADERS LOVE \u003ci\u003eDISTURBANCE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'well worth the wait - engaging and well-written'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'so vividly depicted that you'll feel you've met [the characters] and shared their angst . . . loved it'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Brilliant'","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298558849397,"sku":"9781398712096","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781398712096_456755c0-2c69-4549-8652-39f61b085aef.jpg?v=1786019190"},{"product_id":"9781780375458","title":"Museum of Ice Cream","description":"Jenna Clake’s Museum of Ice Cream is part simulation, part internal monologue, part attempt to reach out. An uncanny examination of objects, scenes, and flavours, these poems explore how food can connect and divide, can feel isolating and terrifying: public and private jars of peanut butter, a tray of lemons, unfurling chocolate bar wrappers. In turning to television, childhood films, and social media accounts, her collection investigates how to reveal and conceal, what it means to have a secret, to be intimate, to navigate something that should be natural, but feels sickly, sour, and wrong. Museum of Ice Cream is Jenna Clake’s second collection, following her debut Fortune Cookie (2017), winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the Melita Hume Poetry Prize, which was also shortlisted for a Somerset Maugham Award.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304436117877,"sku":"9781780375458","price":9.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780375458_1715e424-656d-4392-b4a3-1d8cb045e75f.jpg?v=1786025022"},{"product_id":"whiteness-feminism-and-the-absurd-in-contemporary-british-and-us-poetry","title":"Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry","description":"In an era of political and social turmoil on both sides of the Atlantic, where issues of gender, race and class are linked with concerns of how to survive in a capitalist society, a new aesthetic of Absurdist poetry has emerged. This aesthetic has a troubled relationship to race, pervaded by issues of representation in avant-garde poetry, and notions of who poetry writers and readers are. Focusing on British and US poets including Rachael Allen, Emily Berry, Crispin Best, Caroline Bird, Franny Choi, Jennifer L. Knox, Morgan Parker and Jane Yeh, Jenna Clake investigates how poets use the Absurd to destabilise ideas about race, gender and class and imagine social change. Bringing together Whiteness studies, socio-political theory, and close readings of poems, Clake examines how the Absurd has developed, how its poets understand privilege and offer prospects of hope and change, and how the Absurd might move away from nihilism.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487653994869,"sku":"9781474494359","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jenna-clake.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}