{"product_id":"was-it-for-this-poems-paperback","title":"Was It for This: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHannah Sullivan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hybrid new collection from the author of \u003ci\u003eThree Poems\u003c\/i\u003e--about London, terror, new motherhood, the Grenfell Tower fire, and how we live now.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHannah Sullivan's first collection, \u003ci\u003eThree Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. \u003ci\u003eWas It for This\u003c\/i\u003e continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. \"Tenants,\" the first poem, is an elegy for Grenfell, written from the uneasy perspective of a new mother living a few streets away. Elsewhere, from the terraces and precincts of seventies and eighties London to the late-at-night decks of American suburbs, intimately inhabited geographies provide reference points and sites for revisiting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNothing is too small or unlovely to be transfixed by the poet's attention, from the thin concrete pillars of a flyover to an elderly peacock's broken train. There is a memorializing strain in the forensic accumulation of detail, but there is also celebration, a keen sense of holding on to and cherishing what we can.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Sullivan\u003c\/b\u003e lives in London and teaches English at Oxford. She studied classics at Cambridge and then lived in the United States for a decade. \u003ci\u003eThree Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, her debut collection, was awarded the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 8.25 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777008828704,"sku":"9780374612863","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3b63a16537b06d9126fdab100045d9de.webp?v=1780490342","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/was-it-for-this-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}