{"product_id":"9781800171138","title":"Thinking with Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023. Winner of the Poetry Category OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA White Review Book of the Year 2021. Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around,' he writes, 'we often went to the yam ground, my grandmother's cultivation plot. When I think of my childhood, I see myself entering a deep woodland with cedars and logwood all around. [...] The muscular guango trees were like beings among whom we lived.'Now he lives in Leeds, near a forest where he goes walking. 'Here, trees represent an alternative space, a refuge from an ultra-consumerist culture...' And even as they help him recover his connections with nature, these poems are inevitably political.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Malika Booker writes, 'Allen-Paisant's poetic ruminations deceptively radicalise Wordsworth's pastoral scenic daffodils. The collection racializes contemporary ecological poetics and its power lies in Allen-Paisant's subtle destabilization of the ordinary dog walker's right to space, territory, property and leisure by positioning the colonised Black male body's complicated and unsafe reality in these spaces.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Jason Allen-Paisant\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePoetry by individual poets\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 24 June 2021 by CARCANET PRESS LTD in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 120 pages\u003cbr\u003e136 x 214 x 14 | 166g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperback \/ softback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55374301725048,"sku":"9781800171138","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0409\/6671\/7600\/files\/9781800171138.jpg?v=1764261263","url":"https:\/\/afroribooks.co.uk\/products\/9781800171138","provider":"Afrori Books LTD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}