{"product_id":"9781800174535-why-are-you-shouting","title":"Why Are You Shouting?","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis collection thinks about two main things: the efforts we make as individuals to find some form of connection between ourselves, and the efforts we make as a group to connect to the environment we live in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Are You Shouting?\u003c\/i\u003e, James Womack's fourth Carcanet collection, thinks about two things in particular: our struggle as individuals to find connections between ourselves, with friends, family and lovers, and the efforts we make as groups to connect to the environment we live and die in. Written in the shadow of the climate crisis and the pandemic years, the poems set out to find points of hope and solidarity, against a common backdrop of disruption and collapse to which we are often wilfully blind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlongside these concerns runs a narrative of personal blindness and self-enchantment, a willingness to allow oneself to be misled in order to have a quiet life. If the collection's title suggests that raising one's voice is the readiest way to reach other people, the poems themselves dare to offer quieter solutions, too: there is space for humour and kindness, even a degree of positive thinking about the state the world is in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ghost of Cassandra, the Trojan princess given the gift of prophecy but condemned to have no one believe her words, haunts the collection: her life is a warning, but also an antidote to willed ignorance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The God of whom I speak is dead.\u003cbr\u003eI did my makeup in a disco ball.\u003cbr\u003eI looked at the whole magnificent\u003cbr\u003ecreation of the Lord, and asked,\u003cbr\u003esadly, \"Is it cake?\"'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41728756744289,"sku":"9781800174535","price":10.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35897865_089bc095-190f-463d-a00e-73b71b3a1973.jpg?v=1756932781","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800174535-why-are-you-shouting","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}