{"product_id":"after-the-formalities","title":"After the Formalities","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA Poetry Society Recommendation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA Guardian Poetry Book of the Year\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOne of The Telegraph's Best Poetry Books of 2019\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\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. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection \u003ci\u003eAfter the Formalities\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penned in the Margins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781908058652\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penned in the Margins","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47919005073585,"sku":"SB-190805865X-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/190805865X.jpg?v=1789162644","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/after-the-formalities","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}