{"product_id":"after-party-9781035054671","title":"After Party","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Poetry Book Society Recommendation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDean Browne arrives at the \u003ci\u003eAfter Party\u003c\/i\u003e with the maturity and style of an altogether more seasoned poet. In a debut collection of standout and stand-alone poems, each tests the boundaries of its unique universe. Browne is a mesmeric teller of strange tales, imaginings that can seem origamically contained within the compressed dimensions of a poem. A leg sets off on a long train journey; a Parisian alley cat is launched into space; earthbound lovers attempt to connect while their inner lives prove unbridgeable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLosses are mourned: two poets elegized here - Charles Simic and the late Donegal poet Matthew Sweeney - might offer a fingerpost of sensibilities, though Browne's significant talent is distinctly his own. \u003ci\u003eAfter Party\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a beguiling, resonant new voice, a raised eyebrow and fidelity to the image - sometimes carried along the tightrope much further than seems possible. In poems that are both death-haunted and youthful, and thrumming with a delicious dark humour, Dean Browne brings a much-needed injection of the surreal - or the surreal-ish as he might prefer to say - to Ireland's rising generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Poems that sneak in the side-door then exit through the ceiling' Caroline Bird \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Dean Browne is a terrific poet: his language is agile and fresh, his ideas surprising, and the reader feels invigorated, renewed - and lucky to have met such poems' Nick Laird\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDean Browne is from Tipperary, Ireland, and lives in Cork. He received the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021 and his pamphlet \u003ci\u003eKitchens at Night\u003c\/i\u003e was a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition; it was published by SmithDoorstop in 2022. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe London Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Stinging Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. \u003ci\u003eAfter Party\u003c\/i\u003e is his debut collection.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033996914962,"sku":"9781035054671","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a7988879-37b8-4166-aec4-1bd2ff0b56a0.jpg?v=1770985091","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/after-party-9781035054671","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}