{"product_id":"citadel-9781789621020","title":"Citadel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for Costa Poetry Award 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncluded in the TLS Books of the Year 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncluded in The Telegraph's Poetry Book of the Month in May 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuana of Castile (commonly referred to as Juana la Loca - Joanna the Mad) was a sixteenth-century Queen of Spain, daughter of the instigators of the Inquisition. Conspired against, betrayed, imprisoned and usurped by her father, husband and son in turn, she lived much of her life confined at Tordesillas, and left almost nothing by way of a written record. The poems in \u003ci\u003eCitadel \u003c\/i\u003eare written by a composite 'I' - part Reformation-era monarch, part twenty-first century poet - brought together by a rupture in time as the result of ambiguous, traumatic events in the lives of two women separated by almost five hundred years. Across the distance between central Spain and the northwest coast of England these powerful, unsettling poems echo and double back, threading together the remembered places of childhood, the touchstones of pain, and the dreamscapes of an anxious, interior world. Symbolic objects - the cord, the telephone, eggs, a flashing blue light - make obsessive return, communication becoming increasingly difficult as the storm moves in over the sea. \u003ci\u003eCitadel \u003c\/i\u003eis a daring and luminous debut.**\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martha Sprackland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pavilion Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Pavilion Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.60w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789621020","brand":"Pavilion Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48460554567817,"sku":"9781789621020","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c5de6e3c-78f9-476d-8e27-7e817f027135.jpg?v=1790664688","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/citadel-9781789621020","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}