{"product_id":"9781838852825-things-i-have-withheld","title":"Things I Have Withheld","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the meanings of silence in this collection of provocative and lyrical essays\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this astonishing collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit - the crimes that haunt them, and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Liam Neeson, Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, white women's tears, questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his poetry and novels, \u003ci\u003eThings I Have Withheld\u003c\/i\u003e is a great artistic achievement: a work of beauty which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why - our actions, defence mechanisms, imaginations and interactions - and those of the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40009586311265,"sku":"9781838852825","price":7.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36391487_79584d74-f89e-47e9-ae0e-398040b385a9.jpg?v=1759465916","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781838852825-things-i-have-withheld","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}