{"product_id":"tremble","title":"Tremble","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Fatema Abdoolcarim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMonitor Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePamphlet, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e40 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTremble\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, Fatema Abdoolcarim’s debut collection of poems, is an intimate and involving sequence on fertility and faith. A memoir in verse, these poems relate encounters with the animal other, the uncertain, but always echoing the tender rituals of family, food, prayer. Abdoolcarim thinks through what it means to care – and to mother – at a time where atrocity makes those systems of loving seem out of reach. \u003ci\u003eTremble \u003c\/i\u003etraces the sensual and unknown spaces of desire, creating a hopeful lyric in spaces of private and global loss.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe remarkable poems that make up \u003ci\u003eTremble\u003c\/i\u003e record a body’s descent into vertiginous, all-encompassing desire. Abdoolcarim is fearless in her determination not to look away from what is monstrous in our world, yet her writing also reflects what it is to be fully human. The clarity of her image-making eye, her wit, her compassion, and her rage carry us and challenge us to stay with the trouble, to set our ears to the darkness and listen for the beauty in its hollow ring, to allow it to speak to the very limits of our longing. Her words shimmer like a pool of jade at the centre of a black ceramic bowl, a sensual riposte to Hélène Cixous’ imperative: \u003ci\u003eWrite! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it\u003c\/i\u003e. – Rebecca Hurst\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFatema Abdoolcarim is the rare artist I would follow anywhere, whose work astounds and moves me across every genre. \u003ci\u003eTremble\u003c\/i\u003e is a gift of profound proportions, conveying with her signature brilliant and caring gaze the variable inner and outer textures of life. I hold this remarkable text—its vast and intimate reach—to my chest in gratitude. – Gabrielle Bates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55045040898382,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/dk3n41ah_f49a50ea-080d-4f03-aa15-ec7d999da393.png?v=1761392540","url":"https:\/\/eastbristolbooks.co.uk\/products\/tremble","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}