{"product_id":"know-your-country-kerri-shying-9781925780765","title":"Know Your Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith language that often reads like stream-of-consciousness but is meticulously wrought, these poems are the work of a restless and intelligent imagination. All of the big themes: belonging and exclusion, self realisation, racial politics and love in all its forms are grounded authentically in the particulars of detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Judy Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKnow Your Country\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Newcastle noir, a series of insurgent riffs set to disabuse. Shying's discerning phrasing embodies a 'go on your nerve' poetics, where the local, present moment imbued with its past 'knowing' is offered as ballast against bogus ideas of progress, like the rubble of Haight-Ashbury dumped in Newcastle Harbour. There's 'a male Jessica rabbit', PTSD, drug dealing, knives, but also sashiko stitch, caramel coffee and the anti-fame of snails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Keri Glastonbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI love the sense of live presence, fit language and big personality in these poems of immersion in the 'sticky path' of creaturely existence. Interested and interesting - you can't ask more than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Kate Lilley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kerri Shying\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1925780767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781925780765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.18d","brand":"Kerri Shying","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440133189887,"sku":"9781925780765","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4f2a89a9-f93b-4b5f-bceb-df35aaba3993.jpg?v=1777180442","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/know-your-country-kerri-shying-9781925780765","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}