{"product_id":"bandit-country","title":"James Conor Patterson: bandit country [2022] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ebandit country\u003c\/i\u003e, the much-anticipated debut collection from James Conor Patterson, is a rollicking, hyper-literate and at times deeply troubling account of a young man's navigation of the semi-lawless borderlands between the north of Ireland and the Republic - the 'bandit country' of the Troubles - and the criss-crossed sea border to England and beyond. Patterson shows us how the militarised boundary line of old has morphed into an invisible and semi-wild frontier, where the ghosts of a thirty-year war continue to haunt the 'ceasefire generation'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatterson writes in a hybrid dialect of Newry street and Scots and Irish-inflected English - and in a virtuosic variety of forms: these poems crackle with vernacular wit and the rhythms of everyday speech, absorbing the influence of the poet's Belfast mentor, Ciaran Carson, and the radical poetics of Tom Leonard. Already a rising star and Eric Gregory award-winner, James Conor Patterson is an extraordinary talent at the forefront of a new wave of poets exploring the linguistic inheritance of region and community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patterson, James Conor","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42779372519609,"sku":"9781529092776","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47142314115411,"sku":"XV81529092776","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/patterson-james-conor-james-conor-patterson-bandit-country-2022-paperback-58667569152339.jpg?v=1727981407","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/bandit-country","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}