{"product_id":"9781784104122","title":"Smoothie","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Toutoungi, Claudine, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 24\/08\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 80 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Carcanet Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e Published By: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarcanet Press Ltd\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781784104122\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"strike\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDescription:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eSmoothie is Claudine Toutoungi's debut collection of poems. It takes a tender, exuberant and deliciously dark look at our desire to be heard, whatever the cost; a desire that can be treacherous, comical and sometimes - often enough to fend off despair - fulfilled. Smoothie plots the wayward wanderings of a beguiling cast of misfits - hotel eavesdroppers, city interlopers, lone wolves, phantom bird-watchers, disaffected language robots and triumphant piano-swallowers - as they try to express themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems are candid without being confessional: the poet's `I' encompasses the reader. Language's smooth surface bubbles up as Toutoungi's characters reveal their peculiarly twenty-first-century disorientations, riffing off loneliness, authenticity and heartbreak as they go.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37193588244633,"sku":"9781784104122","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781784104122.jpg?v=1605691941","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781784104122","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}