{"product_id":"9781804271421","title":"plastic by Matthew Rice","description":"Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory,?plastic?is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet.   Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire,?Bplastic?is based on Matthew Rice's experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form,?plastic?engages with the inflictions and implications of a `post-industrial', `post-Troubles' society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film and the visual arts.   Time-stamped to highlight the claustrophobia of the worker's experience, this is a poem about feeling a calling while being submerged in the world of menial labour - making plastic airplane parts by night, making poetry by day, uniting what Jacques Ranci?re calls the `labourers in love with the intellectual nights' and those `intellectuals in love with the toilsome and glorious days of the labouring people.' plastic's evocation and lucidity moves with grace through working class realities and hopeful imaginings.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369212457333,"sku":"9781804271421","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804271421.jpg?v=1763552523","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781804271421","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}