{"product_id":"9781908058652-after-the-formalities","title":"After the Formalities","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Poetry Society Recommendation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Guardian Poetry Book of the Year\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne of The Telegraph's Best Poetry Books of 2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection \u003ci\u003eAfter the Formalities\u003c\/i\u003e. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnaxagorou 'speaks against the darkness', tracking the male body under pressure from political and historical forces, and celebrates the precarious joy of parenthood. The title poem is a meditation on racism and race science that draws on the poet's Cypriot heritage and is as uncomfortable as it is virtuosic. Elsewhere, in a sequence of prose poems that shimmer with lyric grace, he writes, 'I'm your father \u0026amp; the only person keeping you alive.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945854972001,"sku":"9781908058652","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29841701.jpg?v=1725786835","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781908058652-after-the-formalities","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}