{"product_id":"9781398552425-rabbitbox","title":"RABBITBOX","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA transfixing, heart-rending work which follows a mother and her young son living under the shadow of an all-consuming domestic threat, by T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Wayne Holloway-Smith.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Powerful… Intense and unforgettable' MAX PORTER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘I’m blown away… An astonishing work' AMY KEY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Amazing… Truly a feat' RAYMOND ANTROBUS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Devastating, sharp with skilfully wrought language, this book is an ambitious leap into a lyricism that dissembles’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA transfixing, heart-rending work which follows a mother and her young son living under the shadow of an all-consuming domestic threat, by T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Wayne Holloway-Smith.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e24 Coalbrook Street. The house is trembling with a father's anger. It makes a rabbit of a young boy, sends him burrowing into a wardrobe, and leaves his mother standing hapless and mute over the kitchen sink. In this house, how far can a mother’s comfort travel?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the safety of his hiding place, from the magnitude of his fear, a young girl appears offering a way out. Taking him by the hand, reaching through time, she leads him elsewhere; a mother’s love dreaming him away from their reality to the promise – beautiful yet flickering – of a river.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunting, precise and tender, RABBITBOX heralds a major new work from one of Britain's most exciting writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘It takes a rare poet to make such magic of such brutality, but Holloway-Smith is the rarest kind: tender, curious, vivid, and wild. He bunches language like a fist, one that unravels into shadow butterflies, the idea of escape. RABBITBOX is my book of 2026.’ - \u003cb\u003eJOELLE TAYLOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57416972894582,"sku":"9781398552425","price":9.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40259483.jpg?v=1773234318","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781398552425-rabbitbox","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}