{"product_id":"was-it-for-this-9780374607982","title":"Was It for This","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hybrid new collection from the author of \u003ci\u003eThree Poems\u003c\/i\u003eabout London, terror, new motherhood, the Grenfell Tower fire, and how we live now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHannah Sullivan's first collection, \u003ci\u003eThree Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. \u003ci\u003eWas It for This\u003c\/i\u003e continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. Tenants, the first poem, is an elegy for Grenfell, written from the uneasy perspective of a new mother living a few streets away. Elsewhere, from the terraces and precincts of seventies and eighties London to the late-at-night decks of American suburbs, intimately inhabited geographies provide reference points and sites for revisiting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing is too small or unlovely to be transfixed by the poet's atten\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525048410455,"sku":"9780374607982","price":19.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780374607982.jpg?v=1731859039","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/was-it-for-this-9780374607982","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}