{"product_id":"dammtor-by-james-sheard","title":"Dammtor by James Sheard","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the second collection by co-founder of the Poetry Pharmacy, James Sheard and is a signed copy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDammtor is the old city gate and now the centre of ground transport for the great port of Hamburg. In James Sheard's second collection it is a 'station for midnights, hitched up on stone legs, hollow with sunken light' - a hub for the damaged and deracinated. These precise, wounded poems draw the reader through this desolate landscape - through sexual longing, sexual violence, bereavement and the beginning of hope through the birth of a son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDammtor restlessly narrates the condition of maleness, looking for truth and music in a voice which is both urgent and unadorned. The poems are spoken in solitary places - late-night stations, hotel lobbies, car rides and empty woodland - but they are addressed to the living, the missing, the dead and the just-born. Personal and political narratives leak into the spaces of the poems to form a strange light which has something of the hallucinatory clarity of translations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJ\u003cem\u003eames Sheard’s \u003c\/em\u003eDammtor\u003cem\u003e is a wounding, darkly stirring collection of narratives describing a world of loss, lust and hope reborn. This snapshot of a bleak society centres around the old city gate of Hamburg, the eponymous Dammtor. Sheard’s first collection, \u003c\/em\u003eScattering Eva\u003cem\u003e, was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize. Now \u003c\/em\u003eDammtor\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e– t\u003cem\u003ehe Poetry Book Society Choice – further showcases Sheard’s remarkable and lyrical voice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe voice might be by turn elegiac, vicious, obsessive or bewildered as it explores its topic, but it is accompanied by an eye which will not - or, perhaps, cannot - blink. Finding tenderness amid brutality, Dammtor is a highly accomplished and remarkable collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Poetry Pharmacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56093793223040,"sku":"","price":7.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9436\/9563\/files\/dammtor.jpg?v=1751458715","url":"https:\/\/poetrypharmacy.live\/products\/dammtor-by-james-sheard","provider":"The Poetry Pharmacy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}