{"product_id":"9781916760103","title":"Father Myself","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: McDermott, James\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eOf specific Gay interest\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 20 February 2025 by Nine Arches Press in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | \u003cbr\u003e140 x 217 x 12 | 120g\u003cp\u003eIn 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In* Father Myself*, his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father’s complex illness and death; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn clear-sighted and often hard-hitting poems, McDermott takes the reader onto the frontline of the pandemic – documenting the experience and trauma of a COVID-bereaved family with an unflinching eye. Both powerful and compassionate, these extraordinary poems have the capacity to go beyond simply a record of events, reaching sensitively for the human details that matter – the beat of a heart and movement of breath, the touch of a hand, the words we use for goodbye.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McDermott, James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51624830566584,"sku":"9781916760103","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781916760103_3d97a8d7-5648-40be-bbde-f9c429152722.jpg?v=1754998585","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781916760103","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}