{"product_id":"9781780377308-pretenders","title":"Pretenders","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a fraud or a fake? asks Kate Potts in this book. What can the imposter phenomenon – a sense that our true abilities and achievements, and other core aspects of our identities, are unreal, undeserved or mistakenly bestowed – tell us about who we are and how we relate to one another?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePretenders\u003c\/em\u003e, her third book of poetry, Kate Potts asks: what is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a fraud or a fake? And what can ‘the imposter phenomenon’ – a sense that our true abilities and achievements, and other core aspects of our identities, are unreal, undeserved or mistakenly bestowed – tell us about who we are and how we relate to one another?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough lively and vivid poetic monologues drawn from original interview material, and through original poetry, \u003cem\u003ePretenders\u003c\/em\u003e begins to consider individual feelings and experiences of fraudulence, pretence and persona in a wider social and historical context. The varied, hesitant, questing voices build to create a bold and innovative chorus. \u003cem\u003ePretenders\u003c\/em\u003e shines a light on our value systems and hierarchies, interrogating notions of ‘realness’, self-assurance, and the self. Kate Potts' \u003cem\u003eWhichever Music\u003c\/em\u003e was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice in 2008 and shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Her first book-length collection, \u003cem\u003ePure Hustle\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Bloodaxe in 2011, and followed by \u003cem\u003eFeral\u003c\/em\u003e, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55344061645174,"sku":"9781780377308","price":9.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_13519032_35062_20250507052047.jpg?v=1746641353","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781780377308-pretenders","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}