{"product_id":"sin-is-due-in-a-morag-anderson-9781913211592","title":"Sin Is Due In A Room Above Kitty's","description":"\u003cp\u003eScottish poet Morag Anderson explores relationships and the damage people can do to each other in her debut chapbook: concealed violence, love and everything in between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Morag Anderson writes bold poems of survival charged by constraint and release. Here are lived realities of escaping abusive patriarchs and pious cruelties. Yet these honest, unsentimental poems find joy and lyricism in unexpected places: a defiant note left on a pew, a cherishing of the private 'width of my skies'. 'Pour me over ice smashed \/ like fallen birds' instructs one speaker to those who will bury her. Reader, drink in: this intimate, invigorating gathering is a tonic to savour.\u003c\/em\u003e\" - John Mccullough, Winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Stark, raw \u0026amp; devastatingly honest, these confessional poems will thunder like a night train through the darkest tunnel of your heart.\" \u003c\/em\u003e- Ali Whitelock, Author of 'the lactic acid in the calves of your despair.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSample Poem: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaterfamilias\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the breadth of your back\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis no more than narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeneath the tailored twill of your shirt, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhen your fingers, gone to driftwood, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erattle and clack against the ancestral\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecrest of old gold, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhen you cannot rise to greet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe changing seasons that slant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacross your vaulted ceiling, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhen cataracts cloud the clarified sky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand your intended ascension\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseems less assured, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emay your daughters labour with language, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egive birth to books that punctuate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe end of your line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Morag Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1913211592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913211592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fly on the Wall Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.09d","brand":"Morag Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519624229119,"sku":"9781913211592","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1459018-ccf5-473e-a898-bfc8924e7bd6.jpg?v=1778737871","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sin-is-due-in-a-morag-anderson-9781913211592","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}