{"product_id":"afterlife-9781780373720","title":"Afterlife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolly Clark’s poetry inhabits a world that is strange, unsettling, and edged with danger. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis retrospective of her work drawns upon her collections \u003ci\u003eKiss \u003c\/i\u003e(2000), the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted \u003ci\u003eTake Me with You\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and \u003ci\u003eFarewell My Lovely\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), plus \u003ci\u003eAfterlife\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of new poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer debut, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKiss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, journeys inward, exploring the self with an unflinching gaze, before \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTake Me with You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e turns outward to question how we connect – with others, with the wider world, with the unknown. In these collections, her characters, both human and animal, speak in many voices, illuminating the moments when we are most alive – and most alone. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFarewell My Lovely\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e  grapples with the price of survival, charting the experience of leaving one's life behind and returning as a stranger. By turns moving and darkly comic, these poems examine the ways we cling to who we were, even as certainty dissolves and the past slips beyond reach. This retrospective of her poetry opens with a magical new collection – also called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfterlife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e – in which there are no physical limits, nothing is stable and the world is distilled to its elements. The traumatic experience of rape transforms a girl into a tiger, and a tiger into a girl; a whale embraces both air and water until forced to inhabit only one by jealous fish. The poems grapple with the inexplicable nature of some experience, suggesting that we are most real in that mysterious space between living and dying. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePolly Clark is an award-winning poet and novelist. Her first collection, \u003ci\u003eKiss\u003c\/i\u003e, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her second\u003ci\u003e, Take Me with You\u003c\/i\u003e, a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polly Clark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280132944123,"sku":"9781780373720","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_881c547b-138f-4cec-8977-8c5bc6734974.jpg?v=1774991297","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/afterlife-9781780373720","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}