{"title":"Kate Clanchy","description":"\u003cp\u003eKate Clanchy’s writing gracefully explores the complexities of identity, language, and belonging. Her work blends \u003cem\u003ememoir\u003c\/em\u003e, poetry, and fiction, offering keen insights into personal and cultural transformation through vivid storytelling and lyrical prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful reflections on education, creativity, and human connection, inviting contemplation on the ways we grow and understand ourselves. 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She has escaped from a war, she has divorced a violent husband, but can she escape the harsh code she was brought up with?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the kitchen table where anything can be said, the women discover they have everything, as well as nothing, in common.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798438072556,"sku":"9781800751866","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3618753482829.jpg?v=1757196026"},{"product_id":"meeting-the-english-by-kate-clanchy-9781800751781","title":"Meeting the English","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeeting the English\u003c\/em\u003e by Kate Clanchy was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"English\" of this novel are a particular kind of family. Their ailing patriarch is Phillip Prys, the once-famous writer unexpectedly eclipsed first by voguish Salman Rushdie, and second by a massive stroke. His third wife, Shirin, pads through their house in Hampstead, resolute in the face of Myfanwy, the first spouse, who returns with all the subtlety of a stormy weather front to manage Phillip's care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir children, Jake and Juliet, have each retreated towards drugs and food, their already strained relationship with their father unable to bear this latest rupture. And to cap it all, it's the hottest summer anyone can remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnter Struan. Built like a heron, fresh from Scotland, he is thrust—quite literally—into the bosom of the family as Phillip's 17-year-old nurse. He's had experience of death, but not of London. It's a foreign country, with foreign food and foreign customs. But it also has a kind of magic. 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None of them were confident to start with, but a surprising number went on to win prizes, and every one finished up with a poem they were proud of, a poem that only they could have written – their own poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKate's big secret is a simple one: to share other poems. She believes poetry is like singing or dancing and the best way to learn is to follow someone else. In this book, Kate shares the poems she has found provoke the richest responses, the exercises that help to shape those responses into new poems, and the advice that most often helps new writers build their own writing practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have never written a poem before, this book will get you started. If you have written poems before, this book will help you to write more fluently and confidently, more as yourself. This book is not like other creative writing books. It doesn't ask you to set out on your own, but to join in. 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