{"product_id":"the-garbage-poems-9781771316613","title":"The Garbage Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2026 LAMDBA LITERARY AWARD FOR BISEXUAL POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BMO WINTERSET AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PAT LOWTHER AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that repurpose the language of beer cans and fast-food wrappers to explore everything from chronic illness to climate crisis to the joy of wild swimming.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCreated entirely out of words found on trash collected at local swimming holes, Anna Swanson’s garbage poems reclaim hyperbolic corporate marketing-speak for the expression of physical pleasure, queerness, and vulnerability. Written in the years following a head injury, this book traces the connections experienced in the fiercely embodied act of swimming with a chronically ill body. Paired with tender watercolour illustrations of the source garbage by award-winning artist April White, these poems refuse to conform to an illness-and-cure narrative and instead become a vibrant archive of the process of piecing a voice together from fragments, an urgent study of the deeply political nature of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Swanson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278408855803,"sku":"9781771316613","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_4d1cca77-67a5-412d-8f0d-2a7058d84b61.jpg?v=1780408941","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-garbage-poems-9781771316613","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}