{"product_id":"9780393316933","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW The Guest From the Future by Jon Stallworthy","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 08\/05\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt represents what Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Laureate in literature, called art's power of \"redress.\" Stallworthy's poems evoke women survivors; the poet Anna Akhmatova; the painter Francoise Cilot, Picasso's lover; a survivor of the siege of Stalingrad; and a woman who escaped war torn Poland, carrying in her bedding-roll a coverlet she was embroidering for her fiance and herself. This refugee's story bears a curious inverse relationship with that of the \"Lady of Shalott\": Tennyson's patrician artist in her tower, forced to choose between the world and its \"shadows\" in her mirror opts for the world and is destroyed; Stallworthy's peasant artist engages with the world and is sustained by an art that reflects that engagement. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56419564749173,"sku":"9780393316933","price":14.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780393316933.jpg?v=1764598545","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780393316933","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}