{"product_id":"spott-verity-hopelessnepb","title":"Spott, Verity: Hopelessness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe87press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 1, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBritish Avant-Garde Trans poet Verity Spott's ode to T.S Eliot's The Wasteland, but for the 21st Century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wasteland for the 21st Century? In this wild mini-epic poem, Verity Spott takes the reader through an inferno of references and situations, from begging fascists for love to an adapted script from Christopher Nolan's Batman films.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ReviewQuote\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"Text\"\u003e\"For a number of years now I've known Verity Spott as the most extraordinary performer in British poetry today. With the elegiac-satirical prose-verse-drama\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHopelessness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2020, the87press), they have created something strange, haunting and large.\"—Tom Spoliar,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSPAM zine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44059807055895,"sku":"9781916477490","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/Hopelessness.webp?v=1764193587","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/spott-verity-hopelessnepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}