{"title":"Poetry \/ poems by form or style","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"enter-the-water-9781472158185","title":"Enter the Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN OBSERVER BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A dark-light beauty'' Ali Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Totally compelling, \u003ci\u003eEnter The Water\u003c\/i\u003e pulls you along like a current. Gentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid, it wanders like our narrator and shows us both nature and the city through new eyes . . . This book will sneak up on you and leave its music long ringing in your ears'' Cecilia Knapp\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003ci\u003eEnter the Water \u003c\/i\u003eis both visceral and perceptive, a discomfort formulated in great tenderness and pain'' Bhanu Kapil  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Enter the Water\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e has horizons and wit and allusion and rhyme and disenchanted politics and birds, and lines that hit the reader right in the heart . . . The writing is original and perfectly pitched . . . A significant debut'' Ian Patterson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ei sat in a chapel the other night in my big gay coat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003etalking to a god whose answer is only sometimes no\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eno that was a lie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ethe h\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dark-light beauty\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ali Smith\u003cbr\u003eEviction, insomnia, techno-divination and mythologies that \"begin with a bird\" mark the psychic \"circumference\" of \u003ci\u003eEnter the Water.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis is \"a narrative of trying\" performed or lived as a book of poetry. Gates open unexpectedly, startling both the person exiting a space and the one peering in. It's this quality of being \"both in and out always\" that I most appreciate about Jack Wiltshire's writing. It's a place that's both visceral and perceptive, a discomfort formulated in great tenderness and pain. \u003c\/b\u003eAll the water in the book, all the animals and insects and birds: help. How \"the felt-tip green of a butterfly\" is a form of titration: a way to follow something, to look up, to stay connected, until it disappears -- Bhanu Kapil\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnter the Water\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e has horizons and wit and allusion and rhyme and disenchanted politics and birds, and lines that hit the reader right in the heart. \u003c\/b\u003eThe emotional depth and intellectual scope are \u003cb\u003eextraordinary\u003c\/b\u003e. The writing is \u003cb\u003eoriginal and perfectly pitched\u003c\/b\u003e, the developing narrative shares an anger at the uncaring corruption of the world with an awareness that being a person means \"it is lonely being at the centre of things\". \u003cb\u003eA significant debut.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ian Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTotally compelling\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnter The Water\u003c\/i\u003e pulls you along like a current. \u003cb\u003eGentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid\u003c\/b\u003e, it wanders like our narrator and shows us both nature and the city through new eyes. \u003cb\u003eWith razor sharp questions and keen observations, our systems of power and privilege are destabilised and the precarity of existing in the current moment is exposed. \u003c\/b\u003eThis is a book \u003cb\u003efull up to the throat with feeling\u003c\/b\u003e; the intensity and inexpressibility of love, of uncertainty and displacement. But it's also \u003cb\u003efunny, wry and original. This book will sneak up on you and leave its music long ringing in your ears\u003c\/b\u003e -- Cecilia Knapp, author of Peach Pig\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnter the Water \u003c\/i\u003etempts you to wade straight in. 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Their methods are elaborate, and the results are unexpected: one, for instance, might begin by seeing the poet flood their body with the field calls of extinct animals - and end not only in a consideration of survivor's guilt and the destruction of ecosystems, but also in an elated sense of the presence, close at hand, of the many friends and lovers they lost to AIDS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConrad draws on these rituals to enter a political, physical and spiritual state of consciousness, meditating on ecology, queerness and grief in powerful, dreamlike poetry that invites us to engage with the essence of things. 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