{"product_id":"9781800173255-before-we-go-any-further","title":"Before We Go Any Further","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis first collection by New Poetries poet and Telegraph poetry editor is at once brilliantly witty in language and formal ambition, and wryly dark in its themes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e               \u003cbr\u003e               In Tristram Fane Saunders' first collection, readers encounter a poet whose ingenious forms dazzle, even while exploring darker themes. Drawing on delicious, unconventional rhymes and rhythms, \u003cem\u003eBefore We Go Any Further\u003c\/em\u003e conjures a contemporary London as it maps the ways we try to communicate with each other across real and invented distances.\u003cbr\u003e               Sphinxes and sea-creatures, sleepwalkers and surrealists visit poems about art and friendship, poems that are 'trying to tilt toward love', but 'can't help tugging\/at the invisibly thin\/line between true and honest’. They discover wry humour in that struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40888534040673,"sku":"9781800173255","price":10.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35896910_0ff02775-8c38-4ffb-a63d-70ade8d248c1.jpg?v=1756932658","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800173255-before-we-go-any-further","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}