{"product_id":"9781784746131-foretokens","title":"Foretokens","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Howe is peerless and I look at her work, happily, with awe' OCEAN VUONG\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA landmark new collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe, navigating the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism – and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she’s kept \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e– hoarding, I’ve learnt, is a mark of the emigrant – \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eacross continents and time.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins Sarah Howe’s extraordinary new collection, returning to the riddle of belonging she explored in her award-winning debut, \u003ci\u003eLoop of Jade. \u003c\/i\u003eAt the heart is her own mother’s clouded past: abandoned as a baby and taken in, at the turbulent dawn of Communist China, by a woman with her own hidden motives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow a mother herself, Howe finds herself re-examining this unreliable narrative with fresh sight. Sifting through her own history, the poet asks, how can a new generation transform a shattered inheritance? And what is lost and gained in the pursuit?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForetokens\u003c\/i\u003e is a monumental work of survival and creation, turning over what is left behind as it strikes out towards astonishing new vistas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Foretokens \u003c\/i\u003earrives . as a kind of literary event . It’s a work of supreme concision. Not a word is out of place' Lucy Thynne, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55792417997174,"sku":"9781784746131","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39231883_71851c3d-6d26-493a-865e-7ce90df27eb5.jpg?v=1767101329","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784746131-foretokens","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}