{"product_id":"dear-boy-paperback","title":"Dear Boy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily Berry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"These fast-paced poems sting the collection with electricity. They are the quick-fire reports of an ecstatic new voice in contemporary UK poetry.\" - \u003ci\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and darkly witty poems explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a collection with a taste for ventriloquy and wickedness, and a flair for vocal cross-dressing, the balance of power is always shifting in an unexpected direction - an ing nue masquerades as a femme fatale, a doctor appears more disturbed than his patient, and parents seem more unruly than their children. Eccentric, intimate, arch, anxious, decadent and sometimes mournful, the book's confiding, conversational voices tell stories recognizable and refracted, carried along by the undercurrent on which the collection ebbs and rides: the anguish and energy brought about by a long-distance love affair, which propels and terrorizes and ultimately unites the work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is an irresistible and enlivening collection by a new poet of startling and various gifts.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Berry\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in London and studied English Literature at Leeds University, and Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. In 2008 she won an Eric Gregory Award. She is a co-editor of the anthology series \u003ci\u003eStop\/Sharpening\/Your\/Knives\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Breakfast Bible\u003c\/i\u003e, a compendium of breakfasts to be published by Bloomsbury. She works as a freelance writer and editor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 12, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42687790907455,"sku":"9780571284054","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/548bc9334e878de53619c039696857a4.webp?v=1764979809","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/dear-boy-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}