{"product_id":"when-the-barbarians-arrive-paperback","title":"When the Barbarians Arrive - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlvin Pang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Barbarians Arrive comprises poems from three published collections - Testing the Silence (1997), City of Rain (2003) and What Gives Us Our Names (2011) - together with a body of new and uncollected poems by one of Singapore's most exciting and visible poets of the post-1965 generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing and audacious medleys, here are poems wry and shrewd, intelligent and sensitive, generous and playful, yet full of paradox; poems that pry, celebrate and unsettle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Alvin Pang's first full-length UK publication.\u003c\/p\u003e  Pang's] poetry adds a rich and complex presence to the critical mass of urban literature now fully emergent from Singapore. His poems, at once recognizably national and international in reach, offer a fresh edgy energy to this tradition. \u003cp\u003eShirley Geok-lin Lim, Winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize 1992\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728701657151,"sku":"9781906570989","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1dd57652b387591602ed9ea6f00fcae0.webp?v=1765119477","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/when-the-barbarians-arrive-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}