{"product_id":"leaning-against-time-selected-poems","title":"Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first substantial selection of\n poems by SuAndi, whose work - as performer, writer for stage and arts \ncurator - has recently been celebrated by the award of the Benson Medal \nby the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is an honorary fellow, \nfor services to literature across her career, which recognised her \npoems' fierce, vividly powerful and dramatic depictions of women's lives\n - in Manchester, the city she grew up in - and of Black communities and\n the lives of those whose voices are not often heard, even now, in \ncontemporary British literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this selection, the rhythms of speech and performance echo off the\n page. Though she is as at home with the dramatic monologue as the lyric\n and the ballad, SuAndi's poems defy easy categorisation and make \nvisible on the page a remarkable trailblazing writing career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 342 pages | Published October 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63986372247901,"sku":"9781800174993","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781800174993.jpg?v=1774498272","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/leaning-against-time-selected-poems","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}