{"product_id":"the-stasi-poetry-circle-philip-oltermann-9780571331208","title":"The Stasi Poetry Circle","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Engrossing.' -Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Remarkable.' - The Times\n\u003cbr\u003e'Magnificent.'- Phillipe Sands\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Gripping.'- Literary Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel it must be true . . .[A] grippingly well-written book.'- Anthony Quinn, Observer Book of the Week\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work - decided to train their own writers, weaponising poetry in the struggle against the class enemy. Once a month, a group of soldiers and border guards gathered in a heavily guarded military compound in East Berlin for meetings to learn how to write lyrical verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJournalist Philip Oltermann spent five years rifling through Stasi files, dig-ging out lost volumes of poetry and tracking down surviving members of this Red poet's society, to illustrate the little known story in which spies turned poets and poets spies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philip Oltermann","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43763250495731,"sku":"9780571331208","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780571331208.jpg?v=1683836220","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-stasi-poetry-circle-philip-oltermann-9780571331208","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}