{"product_id":"moth-hour","title":"Moth Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘The family didn’t know what to do about grief. The noisy house went silent. I was fourteen. I lay on the red rug in the sitting room and listened to Beethoven’s Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, op. 120 – over and over because it was there.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1973, Anne Kennedy’s brother Philip was partying on a hillside when he accidentally fell to his death. Among books and records, Philip left a poem typed in Courier on thick, cream, letter-sized paper.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCome catch me little child \/ And put me in a jar . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMoth Hour\u003c\/em\u003e, Anne Kennedy returns to the death of her brother and the world he inhabited, writing ‘Thirty-Three Transformations on a Theme of Philip’ and concluding with a longer poem, ‘The Thé’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKennedy’s extraordinary poems grapple with the rebellious world of her brother and his friends in the 1970s; with grief and loss; with the arch of time. The poems reach into the threads of the past to build patterns, grasped for a moment and then unravelling in one’s hands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoth Hour\u003c\/em\u003e is a complex, ambitious piece of writing and a moving poetic engagement with tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490281562485,"sku":"9781869408947","price":12.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781869408947.jpg?v=1786442169","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/moth-hour","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}