{"product_id":"9781784746131","title":"Foretokens by Sarah Howe","description":"Howe is peerless and I look at her work, happily, with awe' OCEAN VUONGA landmark new collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe, navigating the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism - and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself.   'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she's kept - hoarding, I've learnt, is a mark of the emigrant - across continents and time.'So begins Sarah Howe's extraordinary new collection, returning to the riddle of belonging she explored in her award-winning debut, Loop of Jade. At the heart is her own mother's clouded past: abandoned as a baby and taken in, at the turbulent dawn of Communist China, by a woman with her own hidden motives.   Now a mother herself, Howe finds herself re-examining this unreliable narrative with fresh sight. Sifting through her own history, the poet asks, how can a new generation transform a shattered inheritance? And what is lost and gained in the pursuit?Foretokens is a monumental work of survival and creation, turning over what is left behind as it strikes out towards astonishing new vistas.   'Foretokens arrives . . . as a kind of literary event . . . It's a work of supreme concision. Not a word is out of place' Lucy Thynne, Telegraph\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55896456790389,"sku":"9781784746131","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784746131.jpg?v=1756978850","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781784746131","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}