{"product_id":"the-aftershock-review-issue-three","title":"The Aftershock Review: Issue Three","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘A JOLT TO THE MAINSTREAM’ — The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Aftershock Review returns with a third wave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBritain’s most talked-about poetry rupture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere Issue One named the damage, and Issue Two mapped the fragments that remain. Issue Three asks, more dangerously:\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWhat do we need but a bit of hope?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross thirteen urgent sections, Issue Three moves through grief, witness, family, illness, childhood, desire, silence, place and rescue. In An Anthropology of Grief, the dead are not gone: they are carried in ashes, emails, post-mortem reports, river silt and the throat. In The Rear Bedroom, poetry becomes evidence, refusing to look away from war, atrocity and the room that remembers. In What Else Is a Body For?, the body is scanned, judged, medicated, exhausted, hungry and still tender. In Safety Checks, the language of protection turns cold in the mouth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, childhood keeps crawling out. Desire becomes whale, knife, crown, cinema, shame. Language fractures across borders and inheritance. Ringroads, lakes, paintings, skulls, emojis and broken rooms gather pressure. And finally, in I’m Here, Love, the Cavalry Are on Their Way, the issue turns towards rescue, though never the simple kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Aftershock Review is more than a magazine. It is a survivor-led poetry movement, made in the North West, built by community, and shaped by a queer, disabled and neurodivergent editor. It is where poetry refuses silence. Where aftermath becomes form. Where survival keeps speaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade from bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt by community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSustained by Arts Council England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith gratitude to the T. S. Eliot Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Aftershock Review is still beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Aftershock Review","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57549424394622,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1331\/9925\/files\/1781527625.jpg?v=1781527701","url":"https:\/\/www.poetrybooks.co.uk\/products\/the-aftershock-review-issue-three","provider":"The Poetry Book Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}