{"id":1600470,"date":"2026-10-12T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mob25.com\/blog\/?p=1600470"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:10:16","slug":"ambush-at-still-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mob25.com\/blog\/ambush-at-still-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambush at Still Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mob25.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/70627531.jpg\" alt=\"Ambush at Still Lake\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <\/p>\n<p>Financial Times Poetry Book of the Year 2024Caroline Bird&#8217;s new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a collection about marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery in which a recurring dream is playing out: a world where mums impale themselves on pogo-sticks, serial killers rattle around in basements, baby monitors are haunted by someone else&#8217;s baby and, through it all, love stays and stays like a stationary rollercoaster that turns out to be the scariest, most thrilling ride in the amusement park.Her editor welcomed the book in these terms: &#8216;It is bleak, repellent and hilarious in an <\/p>\n<p>American Psycho-ish way. 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