{"product_id":"9781804271421","title":"plastic - Matthew Rice","description":"Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory,�plastic�is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire,�Bplastic�is based on Matthew Rice's experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form,�plastic�engages with the inflictions and implications of a `post-industrial', `post-Troubles' society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film and the visual arts. Time-stamped to highlight the claustrophobia of the worker's experience, this is a poem about feeling a calling while being submerged in the world of menial labour - making plastic airplane parts by night, making poetry by day, uniting what Jacques Ranci�re calls the `labourers in love with the intellectual nights' and those `intellectuals in love with the toilsome and glorious days of the labouring people.' plastic's evocation and lucidity moves with grace through working class realities and hopeful imaginings.","brand":"Matthew Rice","offers":[{"title":"112 pages \/ 29\/01\/2026 \/ Poetry","offer_id":57415964197239,"sku":"9781804271421","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781804271421.jpg?v=1787910697","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781804271421","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}