{"product_id":"bandit-country","title":"Bandit Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eBandit Country, 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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: UK, 2022\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9781529092776\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 10: 1529092779\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"James Conor Patterson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44873238806794,"sku":"","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781529092776.jpg?v=1699802735","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/bandit-country","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}