{"product_id":"when-the-barbarians-arrive-alvin-pang-9781906570989","title":"When the Barbarians Arrive","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the Barbarians Arrive comprises poems from three published collections - Testing the Silence (1997), City of Rain (2003) and What Gives Us Our Names (2011) - together with a body of new and uncollected poems by one of Singapore's most exciting and visible poets of the post-1965 generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing and audacious medleys, here are poems wry and shrewd, intelligent and sensitive, generous and playful, yet full of paradox; poems that pry, celebrate and unsettle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Alvin Pang's first full-length UK publication.\u003c\/p\u003e  Pang's] poetry adds a rich and complex presence to the critical mass of urban literature now fully emergent from Singapore. His poems, at once recognizably national and international in reach, offer a fresh edgy energy to this tradition. \u003cp\u003eShirley Geok-lin Lim, Winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize 1992\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alvin Pang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1906570981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781906570989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ARC Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d","brand":"Alvin Pang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44127185469695,"sku":"9781906570989","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_816c82c6-c801-4cc7-8616-fa60a2a55bc8.jpg?v=1687452302","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-the-barbarians-arrive-alvin-pang-9781906570989","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}