{"product_id":"9781908058652","title":"After the Formalities","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Anaxagorou, Anthony \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePoetry by individual poets\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 September 2019 by Penned in the Margins in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | \u003cbr\u003e140 x 218 x 11 | 138g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnaxagorou 'speaks against the darkness', tracking the male body under pressure from political and historical forces, and celebrates the precarious joy of parenthood. The title poem is a meditation on racism and race science that draws on the poet's Cypriot heritage and is as uncomfortable as it is virtuosic. Elsewhere, in a sequence of prose poems that shimmer with lyric grace, he writes, 'I'm your father \u0026amp; the only person keeping you alive.'Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prizeA Poetry Society RecommendationA Guardian Poetry Book of the Year One of The Telegraphs Best Poetry Books of 2019\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45989866897648,"sku":"9781908058652","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9781908058652.jpg?v=1716036668","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.pro\/products\/9781908058652","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}