{"product_id":"9781035015054","title":"ISDAL : Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Dickey, Susannah \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eNorway\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 14 September 2023 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 128 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 155 x 13 | 214g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best First CollectionThe much-anticipated debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISDAL is a timely interrogation of the true crime genre. In the first of its three parts, we follow the flirty co-presenters of a podcast about the mystery of 'Isdal Woman', whose burnt remains were discovered in Norway in 1970 and who has never been identified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the centre of the book is an inquiry into our perennial obsession with female victims, sexiness, and death: 'The death in question has already occurred', the poet observes, 'has occurred to someone sufficiently abstract as to allow us to romp gainfully, guilelessly, guiltlessly through a simulacrum of death's corridors'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe free verse poems in the final section both explore and - perhaps inevitably - enact the ethical ambiguities of the genre. Witty, excoriating, formally ingenious, ISDAL marks the arrival of a thrilling talent in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44238570782979,"sku":"9781035015054","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781035015054_0585c13e-85e1-4765-8f9e-8ebf3712615b.jpg?v=1731416968","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781035015054","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}