{"product_id":"9781784746131","title":"Foretokens - Sarah Howe","description":"\u003cp\u003eHowe is peerless and I look at her work, happily, with awe' OCEAN VUONGA 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. 'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she's kept - hoarding, I've learnt, is a mark of the emigrant - across continents and time.'So begins Sarah Howe's extraordinary new collection, returning to the riddle of belonging she explored in her award-winning debut, Loop of Jade. 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. 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?Foretokens is a monumental work of survival and creation, turning over what is left behind as it strikes out towards astonishing new vistas. 'Foretokens arrives . . . as a kind of literary event . . . It's a work of supreme concision. Not a word is out of place' Lucy Thynne, Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Howe","offers":[{"title":"96 pages \/ 02\/10\/2025 \/ Poetry by individual poets","offer_id":56970454532471,"sku":"9781784746131","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781784746131_f896ae08-b895-4859-abbc-fd3fd1ad8088.jpg?v=1779381186","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781784746131","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}