{"product_id":"9781784746131","title":"Foretokens","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Howe, Sarah\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePoetry by individual poets\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 2 October 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Chatto \u0026amp; Windus) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 96 pages\u003cbr\u003e135 x 216 x 10 | 114g\u003cp\u003e'Howe is peerless and I look at her work, happily, with awe' OCEAN VUONGA landmark new collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe, navigating the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism – and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she’s kept – hoarding, I’ve learnt, is a mark of the emigrant – across continents and time.'So begins Sarah Howe’s extraordinary new collection, returning to the riddle of belonging she explored in her award-winning debut, Loop of Jade. At the heart is her own mother’s clouded past: abandoned as a baby and taken in, at the turbulent dawn of Communist China, by a woman with her own hidden motives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow a mother herself, Howe finds herself re-examining this unreliable narrative with fresh sight. Sifting through her own history, the poet asks, how can a new generation transform a shattered inheritance? And what is lost and gained in the pursuit?Foretokens is a monumental work of survival and creation, turning over what is left behind as it strikes out towards astonishing new vistas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Foretokens arrives . . . as a kind of literary event . . . It’s a work of supreme concision. Not a word is out of place' Lucy Thynne, Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howe, Sarah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52246330572984,"sku":"9781784746131","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781784746131.jpg?v=1762433881","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781784746131","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}