{"product_id":"books-latch-by-rebecca-goss","title":"Latch","description":"Longlisted for the New Angle Prize for Literature 2025  A London Review Bookshop Book of the Year   Rebecca Goss' fourth and most ambitious collection, Latch,  is a study in the act of returning. It is about reconnecting to a place,  Suffolk, and understanding what it once held, and what it now holds for  a woman and her family. These poems unearth the deep, lasting  attachments people have with the East Anglian countryside, gathering  voices of labour, love, and loss with compelling particularity. The book  is various, unpredictable: memory and magic interweave, secrets tangle  with myth. As in her earlier books, Goss again draws on her distinctive  ability to plough difficult, emotional terrain. Here is an anatomy of  marriage, her parents' and her own, while the natural world becomes an  arena for the emotional push and pull that exists between mothers and  daughters. The return to a childhood home recalls young siblings  retreating into nature as they steer the adult lives that disintegrate  around them. Readers will find themselves beckoned to barns, fields,  weirs, to experience both refuge and disturbance: we are shown a  county's stars, and why a poet needed to return to live under them.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53509597790481,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781800173217.jpg?v=1778163991","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-latch-by-rebecca-goss","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}