{"product_id":"the-penny-dropping-9781852249960","title":"The Penny Dropping","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on powerful and universal themes, \u003ci\u003eThe Penny Dropping\u003c\/i\u003e traces the journey of a relationship from first meeting to eventual break-up.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistance and maturity give retrospective access to moments of revelation which went fatally unacknowledged or unheeded at the time and which now return with an insistence impossible to ignore. But if the penny drops years too late, these poems are their own implicit argument for the value of revisiting our pasts if only in order to acquire a fuller, more complete presence in the now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHovering over the collection is Eliot’s final question in \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e: ‘Shall I at least set my lands in order?’ And as Helen Farish applies herself to the task, her unflinching yet compassionate voice has never been more in evidence. From the elation of the opening ‘Things We Loved’ to the acceptance and humour of ‘Of All My Losses’, much is at stake on every page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helen Farish","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280131731707,"sku":"9781852249960","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781852249960.jpg?v=1772487772","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-penny-dropping-9781852249960","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}