{"product_id":"the-sun-is-open","title":"The Sun is Open","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sun is Open\u003c\/i\u003e sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of the author's father, who was murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving between child and adult voices, past and present, this startlingly innovative debut attempts to decode the fragments left behind and, with them, piece together a history and a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Each page of \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Is Open\u003c\/i\u003e is rich with exquisite and surprising language, pain, and wisdom.' \u003ci\u003e- Maggie Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The Sun is Open employs a grammar in which everything is significant, from Wendy Houses, to the very hairs of your head, to the poetry of First Aid instructions, to slaters. This is meticulous and painstaking -- sometimes pain-making work -- making the words fit the columns, be they inches of newsprint or entries in an Account Book, negotiating or nudging the meanings into alternative senses.' - Ciaran Carson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penned in the Margins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781908058928\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penned in the Margins","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £2.58","offer_id":47919005237425,"sku":"SB-1908058927-C3","price":2.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1908058927.jpg?v=1789698119","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-sun-is-open","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}