{"product_id":"the-first-blast-to-awaken-women-degenerate-paperback","title":"The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel McCrum\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate \u003c\/em\u003eby the inaugural BBC Scotland Poet-In-Residence Rachel McCrum is both lyrical and gentle, demanding and fierce as it carves its own path through themes of family, place, environment, and repression. The poems in the collection are fragments of McCrum's sea-bourne journey from Northern Island, across Scotland, and alighting in Canada. It's a collection about leaving home and what you take with you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Rachel McCrum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel McCrum was born in 1982 and grew up in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland. She lived in Edinburgh, Scotland from 2010 to 2016, where she previously published two pamphlets with Stewed Rhubarb Press: \u003cem\u003eThe Glassblower Dances\u003c\/em\u003e (2012, winner of the Callum MacDonald Award) and \u003cem\u003eDo Not Alight Here Again\u003c\/em\u003e (2015, also a solo Fringe show). She was the Broad of cult spoken word cabaret Rally \u0026amp; Broad, the inaugural BBC Scotland Poet-In-Residence, and a recipient of an RLS Fellowship in 2016. She has performed and taught across the UK, Ireland, Greece, South Africa, Haiti and Canada. She currently lives in Montreal, Quebec, where she is Director of Les Cabarets Batards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancesca Beard\u003c\/strong\u003e:  These voices] come in, banging doors, from the street and the public house and the rented room above the library, with a blast of salt air and the smell of malt and red-knuckled ideas that say 'Let's dance' and there's so much oxygen in them, to breathe them in is rich for the blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStuart Kelly, \u003cem\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e: There is a great deal of won humour and wonder here.  ...] The whole collection manages to take the lyrical and whittle it into the political.  ...] Time and again there are snatches that stick in the memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnnie Rutherford, \u003cem\u003eThe Skinny\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e:  McCrum's] poems - irreverent, heart-wrenching, rallying - have etched themselves into the literary landscape of the country she has now left behind.  ...] There are poems of the sea, bracing and surprising as spray-slapped salt air  ...] humour, passion and delightful monstrosity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArusa Qureshi, \u003cem\u003eThe List\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e: Another impassioned addition to her repertoire  ...] soulful and yet defiant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlison Craig, \u003cem\u003e The Bottle Imp\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e: A voice that sings, rages, roars as you read. These poems make their own stage. The voice is an extraordinary one: strident, angry, full of blood and air, but then tender, lyrical, quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 86\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42107640676487,"sku":"9781910416068","price":17.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/206d313a86c9466d3910ff0c47e4f4e4.webp?v=1732457686","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-first-blast-to-awaken-women-degenerate-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}