{"product_id":"9781784633066-please-dont-bomb-the-ghost-of-my-brother","title":"Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease Don’t Bomb the Ghost of my Brother\u003c\/em\u003e is haunted by loss yet these poems defy despair by stepping emphatically into the liberating realm of strangeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulian Stannard has been described as the poet of cabaret. His poems sing and weep in equal measure; a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre. In his new collection a dead brother returns on a white horse, a musical stag slips off to New York, the Kray Twins reappear, a summer pudding is carried across a heath, a pair of buttocks escapes their owner, a couple makes love on a rain-soaked stoop, the Mongols catapult concubines over the parapets, a dead friend walks out of his grave like a twenty-first century Lazarus, a blind boy breaks into the Kelvingrove Gallery and makes off with Salvador Dali’s crucifixion, Ezra Pound – half fish, half man – rises to the surface of the Venetian lagoon, and after ten years in the Cicada Lunatic Asylum the narrator finds peace in the Umbrian town of Bastardo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease Don’t Bomb the Ghost of my Brother\u003c\/em\u003e is international in scope and tirelessly ludic. The poems engage with the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and personal loss. Stannard’s poems sing and weep in equal measure: a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre, mindful of lacerating loss and the redemptive power of strangeness, a special type of humour. They supply a feast of stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40947403423841,"sku":"9781784633066","price":8.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27415580.jpg?v=1721750917","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784633066-please-dont-bomb-the-ghost-of-my-brother","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}