{"product_id":"the-shores-of-vaikus-9781780377179","title":"The Shores of Vaikus","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this edgy homage to Estonia, the country of his refugee father?s birth, T S Eliot Prizewinner Philip Gross continues to develop the subtle conversation between words and silence that is at the core of his poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt this collection?s heart, the shapeshifting prose-poem monologues of this book''s central sequence, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvi And The Devil, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eweave a haunted landscape out of folktale, dark humour, the routine atrocities of history and a vividly present sense of place. The island of Vaikus (one of several words for silence in Estonian) is Estonia condensed, refracted in the dark waters of a bog pool. The voice that speaks with such compelling otherness is a channelling of a culture and a disposition often drowned out in successive occupations by the empires of the day, but always alive, and whispering. The resulting book is both a bold departure and a drawing together of the whole range of a writing life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloodaxe Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469965005143,"sku":"9781780377179","price":10.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781780377179.jpg?v=1744896943","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-shores-of-vaikus-9781780377179","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}