{"product_id":"isdal","title":"Dickey Susannah: ISDAL [2023] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe much-anticipated debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eISDAL\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely interrogation of the true crime genre. In the first of its three parts, we follow the flirty co-presenters of a podcast about the mystery of 'Isdal Woman', whose burnt remains were discovered in Norway in 1970 and who has never been identified. At the centre of the book is a philosophical enquiry into our perennial obsession with female victims, sexiness, and death: 'The death in question has already occurred', the poet observes, 'has occurred to someone sufficiently abstract as to allow us to romp gainfully, guilelessly, guiltlessly through a simulacrum of death's corridors'. The free verse poems in the final section both explore and-perhaps inevitably-enact the ethical ambiguities of the genre. Witty, excoriating, formally ingenious, \u003ci\u003eISDAL \u003c\/i\u003emarks the arrival of a thrilling new talent in contemporary poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dickey, Susannah","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46968044650835,"sku":"9781035015054","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49069093650771,"sku":"XV81035015054","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/dickey-susannah-dickey-susannah-isdal-2023-paperback-57666520219987.jpg?v=1737571231","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/isdal","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}