{"product_id":"9781784633844-making-the-wedding-dress","title":"Making the Wedding Dress","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eJackie Wills' poems are witty, stylish and taboo busting. They move from a super yacht to allotment, sewing as act of devotion, ask if age brings truth or destruction. Imagine Cruella de Ville on the train to Brighton, ancient philosophers on the beach. Enter today's surreal world fearless, Wills urges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, enable the surreal.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe begins \u003cem\u003eMaking the Wedding Dress\u003c\/em\u003e with a quote from a handbook on sewing and asks what can be fixed, what does it mean to make a daughter’s wedding dress. The collection fans out to explore bullying, money, trade, rats and sinkholes. A third section questions how humans relate to other species, speculates on a worm's opinion of people, the communal life of starlings. The book ends on ideas of exits and entrances, home, absences within a family and the fragility of care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking the Wedding Dress\u003c\/em\u003e makes many unexpected connections, moving from sauna to plum tree, to a luxury yacht cruising off Brighton beach. It asks what crows think of humans, it urges its readers to question what is normal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJackie Wills’ six previous collections have taken on big issues but her poems are always grounded. Her poems have been described as warm and witty, satirical, feminist and unputdownable. She starts with the mundane, then exaggerates – a list of the many words used to describe a woman, a sequence of short, impressionist poems on the surreality of menopause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiz Lochhead described her 1995 debut, \u003ccite\u003ePowder Tower\u003c\/cite\u003e (Arc 1995), as “full of fabulous and exact fictions about ordinary family life”. Writer Robert Macfarlane described her second book \u003ccite\u003eParty\u003c\/cite\u003e (Leviathan 2000) as “a very fine collection indeed”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57053732471158,"sku":"9781784633844","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39588918_927bbd14-96c7-43c8-bbdc-0da9d57f1630.jpg?v=1769088274","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784633844-making-the-wedding-dress","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}