{"product_id":"flood-paperback-1","title":"Flood - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClare Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home. The 2015 floods in Britain left whole swathes of the country submerged, including her home town. Flood offers an eye-witness account of those events, from rainfall to rescue, but ripples out from there. Intimately interwoven with the breakdown of a relationship, flooding serves as a powerful metaphor for wider experiences of loss, destruction and recovery. Testifying equally to the forces that destroy us and save us, flood runs through the book in different forms - bereavement and trauma, the Savile scandal, life in an asylum. Yet ultimately, this is a story of one life as it is unravelled and rebuilt, written from the heart and from the North, in a language as dangerous and sustaining as water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClare Shaw\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Burnley in 1972. Their first two collections with Bloodaxe were \u003cem\u003eStraight Ahead \u003c\/em\u003e(2006), which attracted a Forward Prize Highly Commended for Best Single Poem, and \u003cem\u003eHead On\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), which according to the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e is 'fierce, memorable and visceral'. Their later collections are\u003cem\u003e Flood\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), a New Writing North Read Regional title in 2019, and\u003cem\u003e Towards a General Theory of Love\u003c\/em\u003e (2022) which won a Northern Writers' Award and was a Poetry Society Book of the Year. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460586934509,"sku":"9781780374208","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/flood-paperback-1","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}