{"product_id":"9781035015054-isdal","title":"ISDAL","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe much-anticipated debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN Heaney Prize\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIrish Times Book \u003c\/i\u003eof 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe much-anticipated debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eISDAL\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely interrogation of the true crime genre. In the first of its three parts, we follow the flirty co-presenters of a podcast about the mystery of 'Isdal Woman', whose burnt remains were discovered in Norway in 1970 and who has never been identified.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the centre of the book is an inquiry into our perennial obsession with female victims, sexiness, and death: ‘The death in question has already occurred’, the poet observes, ‘has occurred to someone sufficiently abstract as to allow us to romp gainfully, guilelessly, guiltlessly through a simulacrum of death’s corridors’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe free verse poems in the final section both explore and – perhaps inevitably – enact the ethical ambiguities of the genre. Witty, excoriating, formally ingenious, \u003ci\u003eISDAL \u003c\/i\u003emarks the arrival of a thrilling talent in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40967868776545,"sku":"9781035015054","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28164171.jpg?v=1722367998","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035015054-isdal","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}