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A long poem accompanied by the author's own 'rainforest gothic' artwork, the book is also a bold and necessary experiment in making a sight-impaired-accessible art book - it will feature Braille alongside conventional text, and tactile, textured images.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308904722805,"sku":"9781911284550","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911284550_4793d84f-7bc3-4a81-9cd0-d1b4246df493.jpg?v=1786029342"},{"product_id":"9781917126038","title":"Annah, Infinite","description":"In Annah, Infinite, the dominant narratives surrounding Paul Gauguin's famous painting Annah la Javanaise (1893-94) are turned upside down. The work argues a simple point: what if the portrait does not depict a romanticised muse, but a pained child, caught in a moment of profound vulnerability? In questioning the 'facts' surrounding Annah's life, Annah, Infinite draws attention to how historical narratives, shaped by colonial powers, have distorted Annah's story. It critiques the systems of ablenormativity, racism, and sexism embedded in art institutions, and the way these structures mask the violent colonial legacies still haunting museum walls. Interspersed with the author's own poetry, fiction, and visual art on the painting's subject, this is a book of emotional heft. It asks us all to acknowledge the possibility of pain in every single portrait, as well as the possibility of escape.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309049229685,"sku":"9781917126038","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781917126038_06aa4a0b-4ec4-4700-8fd2-c5c45ff77227.jpg?v=1786030578"},{"product_id":"9781913437091","title":"Ultimatum Orangutan","description":"\u003cp\u003eKhairani Barokka's second poetry collection is an intricate exploration of colonialism and environmental injustice: her acute, interlaced language draws clear connections between colonial exploitation of fellow humans, landscapes, animals, and ecosystems. Amidst the horrifying damage that has resulted for peoples as interlinked with places, there is firm resistance. Resonant and deeply attentive, the lyricism of these poems is juxtaposed with the traumatic circumstances from which they emerge. Through these defiant, potent verses, the body—particularly the disabled body—is centred as an ecosystem in its own right. 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These radical poems of fury and prayer look towards the vital, living resistance of persisting languages, and resilient peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309433205109,"sku":"9781913437886","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913437886_afa3a6b9-9f5d-4ed2-8d14-5ca43a86ed82.jpg?v=1786030261"},{"product_id":"rope-1","title":"Rope","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKhairani Barokka\u003c\/b\u003e’s first full poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eRope, \u003c\/i\u003eis a spellbinding and impressive debut, kaleidoscopic in detail and richly compelling. With a meticulous artist’s instinct, these finely-tuned poems ask urgent questions about our impact upon the environment, and examine carefully the fragile ties that bind our lives and our fate to our planet, our ecosystems and to our fellow humans. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sensual and ecologically attentive, \u003ci\u003eRope\u003c\/i\u003e draws on issues of climate change, sexuality, violence, nature, desire and the body. Lush with detail, alert to its own distinct sounds, this is poetry in urgent and vivacious action - intent on finding vivid joy and hope amidst the destruction and dangers of the Anthropocene era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490233819509,"sku":"9781911027232","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911027232.jpg?v=1786442118"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-khairani-barokka.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}