{"product_id":"fresh-out-of-the-sky-9781780375847","title":"Fresh Out of the Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFresh Out of the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of songs, dreams, laments, narratives and comedies about major life-changes involving country, identity and belonging. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is about perpetually standing at the edge of change, anticipating it, reflecting on it and dreaming about it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe title sequence of the book returns to the terza rima theme of memory, following sequences in George Szirtes’ earlier books, such as those about early Budapest childhood explored in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eReel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and about growing to adulthood in England in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn English Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Here the theme is arrival in England as a child in 1956. These are followed by the second part of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a continuing poem of impossible questions about identity as residual Jewishness, in the form of a dialogue with Szirtes’ late father. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter that there is a brief section of bridging poems set in the aftermath of war, upheaval and life in contemporary England that leads to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoing Viral\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a substantial section of ten-line poems, divided into brief chapters, presenting dreamlike reports from the Covid bunkers we have all been inhabiting and ending on occasions of consolation, delight and joy in the midst of darkness and uncertainty. The book then moves, by way of five interludes, from one dreamlike experience to another, in the form of nine dream songs set in an unstable social and political landscape. The last section steps from dream to a bestiary of transformations woven through Guillaume Apollinaire and Graham Sutherland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of The King's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2024\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Szirtes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280134549755,"sku":"9781780375847","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781780375847.jpg?v=1772486442","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/fresh-out-of-the-sky-9781780375847","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}