{"product_id":"browne-dean-after-party-2025","title":"Browne Dean: After Party [2025]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Poetry Book Society Recommendation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Poems that sneak in the side-door then exit through the ceiling' - Caroline Bird\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dean Browne","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51781976850771,"sku":"9781035054671","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":53993767534931,"sku":"XE81035054671","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/dean-browne-browne-dean-after-party-2025-9781035054671-1190782835.jpg?v=1781340351","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/browne-dean-after-party-2025","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}