{"product_id":"boom-9781781721759b","title":"Boom!","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe title poem of this new collection of poems by Carolyn Jess-Cooke: \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBoom!\u003c\/span\u003e enacts the moment when the new baby arrives in the family like a hand grenade . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBecoming a mother changed me in every single way, says the author, my first child born in October 2006 just about knocked me sideways. There were many reasons for this, but here s the biggest one: I could not believe how public and political the (hugely personal) experience of motherhood was. A noted academic, author of a book about film and Shakespeare, and a best-selling popular novelist \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Guardian Angel's Journal\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Boy Who Could See Demons\u003c\/span\u003e, Jess-Cooke found, as many parents do, that the juggling act required to raise young children and continue a professional and creative life, is both exhausting and fulfilling. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThese poems chronicle the rapturous moments, such as Wakening where the baby is observed: the seedling eyes stirred by sunlight . There are also the tragi-comic Nights full of small elbows in the face and assailed by colds and colic . Jess-Cooke doesn t flinch from the darker fears and depressions that can afflict parents. There are also pieces of pointed satirical intent and socio-political comment such as Poem made from bits of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNewspaper Headlines\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Only Dad in Playgroup\u003c\/span\u003e .\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eViewing motherhood from a multiplicity of artful angles, the author says, Coupled with all this was the love I had for my children. It completely and utterly blew me away, how much I could love another human being.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Seren Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42866666799184,"sku":"9781781721759B","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781781721759-l.jpg?v=1788299317","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/boom-9781781721759b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}