{"product_id":"swimming-between-islands-charlotte-eichler-9781800171374","title":"Swimming Between Islands","description":"\u003ci\u003eSwimming Between Islands\u003c\/i\u003e, Charlotte Eichler's first collection, has its own distinctive weathers, atmospheres and fauna. Egg collectors, moth trappers, hermits, cuttlefish, pyjama sharks and bloody henry starfish all play a part. This islanded world is the starting point for poems that explore how we try to connect with each other - despite misunderstanding, family silences and unwanted legacies. 'Read Charlotte Eichler's poems slowly, so that you can really take note of them, because they're astonishing, ' said Laura Scott, responding to Eichler's poems in\u003ci\u003e New Poetries VIII\u003c\/i\u003e. Anthony Vahni Capildeo characterised her first pamphlet as 'modern pastoral, not nostalgic, and well beyond the ordinary domestic lyric'. \u003ci\u003eSwimming Between Islands\u003c\/i\u003e gathers this work with a substantial collection of new poems. In Eichler's poems, the first person singular is relational, social; it refuses to mark one consciousness neatly off from another. The poems' perspective is often plural, a 'we' which is one minute a couple considering marriage, the next, childhood friends divining the future from ladybirds and four-leafed clovers. The reader is invited to come close, and then right into the centre of the poem; the book progresses towards ever wilder, more isolated places in Scotland, Scandinavia, Russia, Alaska, where 'we are found: \/ the gannets are white flares \/ hitting the water \/ under a fishbone sky'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlotte Eichler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800171374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800171374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30d","brand":"Charlotte Eichler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149567389951,"sku":"9781800171374","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_40a12429-d1ed-4ce8-8d0f-c8709f802e4c.jpg?v=1688457367","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/swimming-between-islands-charlotte-eichler-9781800171374","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}