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Historically, \"the debris of empire that crowd our shores\" connects to the \"sands of our beaches \/ littered with masks and plastic bottles.\" These are poems of wit and anger, but also of personal intimacy - dealing with the vexed relationship with a violent father - and give us line after line of the shapeliest poetry - in sound, in rhythm and the exact choice of word.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49604696572177,"sku":"GOR013408244","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49620302692625,"sku":"GOR013428821","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746040979729,"sku":"NGR9781845235505","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1845235509.jpg?v=1751379227"},{"product_id":"benjamin-my-son-book-geoffrey-philp-9781900715782","title":"Benjamin, My Son","description":"Jason Lumley is in a Miami bar when he sees a newsflash reporting the murder of his politician father, Albert Lumley. 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Benjamin, My Son combines the excitement of the fast-paced thriller, the literary satisfactions of its intertextual play and the bracing commentary of its portrayal of the sexism, homophobia and moral corruption which have filled the vacuum vacated by the collapse of the nationalist dream.  Geoffrey Philp was born in Jamaica. He now lives and works in Miami.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50401563246865,"sku":"CIN1900715783VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1900715783.jpg?v=1751281839"},{"product_id":"twelve-poems-and-a-story-for-christmas-book-geoffrey-philp-9780595368877","title":"Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas","description":"The poems describe the journey of a newlywed couple, Mary and Joseph, to their ancestral homeland where they are to be registered in a census decreed by a tyrant. 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