{"product_id":"9781800174399","title":"Tablets : Secrets of the Clay by Mikhail, Dunya","description":"Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003ePoetry by individual poets\u003cbr\u003e9781800174399\u003cbr\u003e'A bullet \/ then a siren \/ then ruins \/ then a bird song telling the truth' — Dunya MikhailIn her marvellous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world's first symbols – Sumerian glyphs that were carved into clay tablets – into the matter of our everyday contemporary life. Each of the ten sections in her book is composed of twenty-four short poems, and each poem combines both text and drawing. In her note to the collection, Mikhail writes, 'I practiced at least two layers of translation in these tablets: the first from words in one language, Arabic, to another, English; and the second from words to images. What I received from my ancestors are offerings of the future rather than of the past. Now it's my turn to offer them to you.'\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The Book Elephant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50733362610509,"sku":"9781800174399","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0829\/0808\/6605\/files\/9781800174399.jpg?v=1734626403","url":"https:\/\/thebookelephant.co.uk\/products\/9781800174399","provider":"The Book Elephant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}