{"product_id":"a-brief-letter-to-the-ali-whitelock-9781743059722","title":"A Brief Letter to the Sea About a Couple of Things","description":"\u003cp\u003eBut here's the thing, I have programmed these poems to whisper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyour name (yes, yours) in the middle of the night, in the same way\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat a family-sized bar of white chocolate and packets of crinkle-cut\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echips whisper your name from the dark of the pantry when you're\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etrying to reduce your carbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a collection where things start innocently enough with an ovarian cyst, and where the poet wakes from dreams of sex in Bunnings (in the light bulb aisle if you're wondering), these poems crash land into your soup bowl leaving your fresh white dress drenched in Campbell's cream of tomato.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAli Whitelock's poems, bold and loud and heartbreaking, run bare arsed through the shit storm of this world while playing Rachmaninoff's fifth on a piano left out in the rain. They howl and they ache, they hoot and they pine, they curl up with the sea urchins, sing to the starfish, waltz with the seahorses - they sleep with the moon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ali Whitelock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1743059728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781743059722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wakefield Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.24d","brand":"Ali Whitelock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44302075101439,"sku":"9781743059722","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84058137-951a-4ba2-9969-9d2dd63ac0ed.jpg?v=1695159374","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-brief-letter-to-the-ali-whitelock-9781743059722","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}