{"product_id":"deep-wheel-orcadia","title":"Deep Wheel Orcadia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAstrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDeep Wheel Orcadia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire - all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as an accomplished poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDeep Wheel Orcadia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e now strikes out into audacious new space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harry Josephine Giles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67742444519618,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/8002\/4002\/files\/918TBB5GqCL._SY522.jpg?v=1791557512","url":"https:\/\/frictionbooks.com\/products\/deep-wheel-orcadia","provider":"Friction Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}