{"product_id":"9781784103361","title":"Seasonal Disturbances by Karen McCarthy Woolf","description":"A strange and stunning collection from a true writer. Vulnerable, hilarious and wise, Seasonal Disturbances is a darkly humorous exploration of the human condition.'               Young Poet Laureate for London, Warsan Shire                              Second Place Winner of the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry               A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation               Following her groundbreaking 2014 d?but An Aviary of Small Birds (`technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak' - Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances.                                 Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence, these poems are charged yet meditative explorations of nature, the city, and the self. A sinister CEO presides over a dystopian hinterland where private detectives investigate crimes against hollyhocks; Halcyon is discovered as a dead kingfisher, washed up on an Italian beach. Lyrical and inventive, McCarthy Woolf's poems test classic and contemporary forms, from a disrupted zuihitsu that considers her relationship with water, to the landay, golden shovel, and gram of \u0026amp;.                  As a fifth-generation Londoner and daughter of a Jamaican ?migr?, McCarthy Woolf makes a variety of linguistic subversions that critique the rhetoric of the British class system. Political as they may be, these poems are not reportage: they aim to inspire what the author describes as an `activism of the heart, where we connect to and express forces of renewal and love'.                  Cover Illustration: Nuri R. Melgarejo\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304966140277,"sku":"9781784103361","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784103361.jpg?v=1762796610","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781784103361","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}