{"product_id":"sonnets-from-a-cell-9781771316132","title":"Sonnets from a Cell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner 2024 Raymond Souster Award* Longlisted 2024 Gerald Lampert Award* Winner 2023 Alcuin Award* Poems for and about the incarcerated.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters' debut \u003ci\u003eSonnets from a Cell\u003c\/i\u003e mix inmate speech, prison psychology, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is tough and tender, that is accountable both to Peters' own days \"caught between the past and nothing\" and to the structures that sentence so many \"to lose.\" Written behind doors our culture too often keeps closed, this is poetry reaching out for moments of longing, wild joy and grace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on his own experiences as a teenager and young adult in and out of the Canadian prison system, Peters has written both a personal reckoning and a damning and eloquent account of our violence- and enforcement-obsessed capitalist and patriarchal cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBradley Peters\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, actor, and carpenter from Mission, BC. His poetry has been published in numerous literary magazines, has been shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e's Ralph Gustafson Award, has twice been the runner-up for \u003ci\u003eSubterrain\u003c\/i\u003e's Lush Triumphant Award, and in 2019 placed first in \u003ci\u003eGrain Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Short Grain contest. \u003ci\u003eSonnets from a Cell\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50697503736082,"sku":"9781771316132","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_992d20d1-a5e1-4ecb-bb68-fa1cba8470d0.jpg?v=1734303647","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sonnets-from-a-cell-9781771316132","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}