{"title":"Books by Sasha Dugdale","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781784108984","title":"Deformations","description":"Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize 2021. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020. Deformations includes two large-scale works related in their preoccupation with biographical and mythical narrative. 'Welfare Handbook' explores the life and art of Eric Gill, the well-known English letter cutter, sculptor and cultural figure, who is known to have sexually abused his daughters. The poem draws on material from Gill's letters, diaries, notes and essays as part of a lyrical exploration of the conjunction between aesthetics, subjectivity and violence. 'Pitysad' is a series of simultaneously occurring fragments composed around themes and characters from Homer's Odyssey. It considers how trauma is disguised and deformed through myth and art. Acting as a bridge between these two works is a series of individual poems on the creation and destruction of cultural and mythical conventions.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304599925109,"sku":"9781784108984","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784108984_a93f0cac-d715-4fb7-a01a-ff0aedf1789d.jpg?v=1786025923"},{"product_id":"9781784105037","title":"Joy","description":"Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award.                Contains the poem 'Joy' - Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.                               Sasha Dugdale’s fourth Carcanet collection, Joy, features the poem of that title which received the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. ‘Joy’ is a monologue in the voice of William Blake’s wife Catherine, exploring the creative partnership between the artist and his wife, and the nature of female creativity. The Forward judges called it ‘an extraordinarily sustained visionary piece of writing’.                  The poems in Joy mark a new departure for Dugdale, who expresses in poetry a hitherto ‘silent’ dialogue which she began as an editor of Modern Poetry in Translation with writers such as Don Mee Choi, Kim Hyesoon, Maria Stepanova and Svetlana Alexeivich. Dugdale combines an open interest in the historical fate of women and in the treacherous fictional shaping of history. In the abundant, complex and not always easy range of voices in Joy she attempts to redress the linear nature of remembrance and history and restore the ‘maligned and misaligned’.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305175429493,"sku":"9781784105037","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784105037_71452abf-f060-4a1b-abae-001598ab6dee.jpg?v=1786025891"},{"product_id":"9781800174085","title":"The Strongbox","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Strongbox opens with the abduction of a woman to a foreign land and ends with the Rape of Europa. Drawing in elements of Greek mythology, epic literature and recent history, this protean work gives shape to a cast of characters both ancient and modern, as they flit in and out of tales, their voices overlapping and interacting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unnamed girl is persuaded to leave behind her country and her childhood and travel to a warzone. Helen of Sparta, already trapped behind the walls of Ilium, is plagued by dreams about the coming conflict. Gods continue their manipulations, while mortals persist in defying the will of their gods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of interconnected scenes and dialogues this singular work traces the role of myth in shaping our accounts of both history and contemporary events.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306979078517,"sku":"9781800174085","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800174085_10c06622-f383-4611-9be7-31993ff752b1.jpg?v=1786026829"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-sasha-dugdale.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}