{"product_id":"foretokens","title":"Foretokens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Howe is peerless and I look at her work, happily, with awe' OCEAN VUONG\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A landmark new collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe, navigating the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism - and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she's kept\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e- hoarding, I've learnt, is a mark of the emigrant -\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eacross continents and time.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e So begins Sarah Howe's extraordinary new collection, returning to the riddle of belonging she explored in her award-winning debut, \u003ci\u003eLoop of Jade.\u003c\/i\u003e At the heart is her own mother's clouded past: abandoned as a baby and taken in, at the turbulent dawn of Communist China, by a woman with her own hidden motives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now a mother herself, Howe finds herself re-examining this unreliable narrative with fresh sight. Sifting through her own history, the poet asks, how can a new generation transform a shattered inheritance? And what is lost and gained in the pursuit?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eForetokens\u003c\/i\u003e is a monumental work of survival and creation, turning over what is left behind as it strikes out towards astonishing new vistas.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Foretokens\u003c\/i\u003e arrives . . . as a kind of literary event . . . It's a work of supreme concision. Not a word is out of place' Lucy Thynne, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Foretokens","offer_id":45311219466437,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-78474-613-1.jpg?v=1762734055","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/foretokens","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}