{"product_id":"9781472159632","title":"Shine, Darling","description":"Author: Ella Frears\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781472159632\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 08 Jul 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Poetry Book Society Recommendation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUpdated edition, with a new poem and a new essay by Ella, on poetry and process\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fizzing with insistent energy . . . full of crystalline images and metaphors . . . Frears is excellent on sexual politics, the end of girlhood'  Guardian \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElla Frears's debut is a collection of wry, vivid poems whose power lies in their intimacy. They are as insistent as they are circumspect, drawing close to the reader's ear and bringing them into confidence. The engine of \u003ci\u003eShine, Darling\u003c\/i\u003e is one of strength, of fortitude in confronting and surviving the world, of a lifted-chin audacity - 'There was pain,' the speaker allows, 'but it was not new pain.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrears's work is world-weathered rather than world-weary, delighted by service stations, fucking on bins in Cornwall, in constant communion with the moon. It lives for the power-play of people, of the pull of the sea, the smoky air - 'Stormy, sticky with flies' - and tangled underbrush where the land ends. Her characters test each other, experimenting with the boundaries of physical violence, of punishment, of traps, all the while drawing the reader into a complicity that gives these poems all their daring, electrifying muscularity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShine, Darling\u003c\/i\u003e, the desire to expose and disclose wrestles with defence and defiance. The result is exhilarating, a 'glorious full-bodied' debut collection with the draw of an adamant tide.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46717719511198,"sku":"ADS-9781472159632","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781472159632.jpg?v=1776128909","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781472159632","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}