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The preface by the poet's daughter, Emma Satyamurti, places this collection in the larger context of four decades of published work, and provides an illuminating insight into the poems gathered together here.  Poetry Book Society Recommendation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49519144599825,"sku":"GOR013122502","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743138586897,"sku":"NGR9781780376530","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51050328195345,"sku":"NIN9781780376530","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52120476975377,"sku":"NLS9781780376530","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1780376537.jpg?v=1751454839"},{"product_id":"stitching-the-dark-book-carole-satyamurti-9781852246921","title":"Stitching the Dark","description":"Carole Satyamurti's poetry explores love, attachment and the fragility of personal survival, charting the tension between connected and separate lives. With an unflinching eye, she takes on complex and often painful subject-matter - cancer for instance or raising a disabled child. Many of her poems hinge on a turning-point or a place where one life touches another, bearing witness to the way we imagine - or fail to imagine - the otherness of others. Stitching the Dark draws on four previous books and includes a whole new collection, her strongest and most formally adventurous. In these new poems, there is a deeper engagement with the universal predicament of how to live in the face of mortality - of what it means to exist, and to cease existing. The title suggests that the act of writing - the search for the right words - is an attempt to repair, illuminate, and give form to what is unknown, fearful, perplexing. But the collection is by no means solemn. There is also wit and celebration, dark humour and a fine sense of the absurd, as well as poems challenging our responses to events that do not affect us directly. 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The second part of the book places individual lives in the wider political and social context, asking for instance, what it might mean to be caught up in civil war, a ferry disaster, the alienating complexities of bureaucratic procedure. The poems engage with the question of what can be our relation to such experiences, as much as with the experiences themselves and how people attempt to survive them. Serious, sharp and witty, Carole Satyamurti achieves (as fellow poet, Catherine Byron, says) `an extraordinary balance between an unflinching facing of grim facts and a particular sort of lightness of heart'. From reviews of Changing the Subject : `Carole Satyamurti's second collection is like a seemingly innocuous drink, laced with the hard stuff' Carol Ann Duffy, The Guardian `the wit does not provide a cosmetic for the emotion, it co-exists with it...the underlying terror is almost unnoticeably stalked and pinned.' 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