{"product_id":"9780393316933","title":"The Guest From the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt represents what Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Laureate in literature, called art's power of \"redress.\" Stallworthy's poems evoke women survivors; the poet Anna Akhmatova; the painter Francoise Cilot, Picasso's lover; a survivor of the siege of Stalingrad; and a woman who escaped war torn Poland, carrying in her bedding-roll a coverlet she was embroidering for her fiance and herself. This refugee's story bears a curious inverse relationship with that of the \"Lady of Shalott\": Tennyson's patrician artist in her tower, forced to choose between the world and its \"shadows\" in her mirror opts for the world and is destroyed; Stallworthy's peasant artist engages with the world and is sustained by an art that reflects that engagement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookmonger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52916175765838,"sku":"9780393316933","price":14.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0874\/5795\/6174\/files\/9780393316933_d03d7799-43b2-436d-840d-201628471411.jpg?v=1779809567","url":"https:\/\/thebookmongerbearsden.co.uk\/products\/9780393316933","provider":"The Bookmonger","version":"1.0","type":"link"}