{"product_id":"9781780376332","title":"The Glimmer by Shazea Quraishi","description":"The Glimmer is a meditation on the time-span of life illuminated by many voices. In an artists' colony in Mexico, a taxidermist tends animals in their after-life, contemplating what remains of us after death. Among the artists she encounters are a painter of miniatures, a war photographer, a light artist, a ghazal singer, and dancers from Tanzteater Wuppertal, as they reflect on the impulse to make work and meaning in a world where value is increasingly monetised.   Within the extended narrative are self-contained poems ranging in form from syllabics and ghazals to OULIPO-inspired anagram poems, drawing on found text and verbatim speech to bring a choir of voices to life.  The title work is followed by two elegies.   The Glimmer is Shazea Quraishi's second full-length book of poetry, following her debut, The Art of Scratching.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304588685685,"sku":"9781780376332","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781780376332.jpg?v=1762796140","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781780376332","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}