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The Luna Erratum
The Luna Erratum is Maria Sledmere's first poetry collection. Maria is an artist, occasional music journalist and poet based in Glasgow, as well as being editor-in-chief at SPAM Press and member of A+E Collective. Her pamphlets include nature sounds without nature sounds (Sad Press, 2019), Rainbow Arcadia (Face Press, 2019), infra-structure - with Katy Lewis Hood (Broken Sleep Books, 2020), Chlorophyllia (OrangeApple Press, 2020), neutral milky halo (Guillemot Press, 2020), Sonnets for Hooch, with Mau Baiocco and Kyle Lovell (Fathomsun, 2021), varnish//cache (If a Leaf Falls, 2021), Polychromatics (Legitimate Snack, 2021) and Soft Friction - with Kirsty Dunlop (Mermaid Motel, 2021). With Rhi...
Infra-structure
infra-structure is a collaborative work shaped over a year of correspondence between Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere. The pamphlet was written following an Association of Literature and Environment conference on the Orkney islands, a wind battered archipelago north of the Scottish mainland. The poems respond to this distinct setting and share a dichotomous relationship where each 'complete' poem is mirrored by an 'incomplete' sister poem. Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere's innovative dismantling of language echoes the destructive energy of the natural world. infra-structure is a highly original, must read pamphlet.
Snackbox
Snackbox is a selection of Legitimate Snacks from Broken Sleep Books' seminal handmade imprint. Containing complete works by poets such as J. H. Prynne, Rishi Dastidar, Aaron Kent, Astra Papachristodoulou, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Imogen Cassels, Maria Sledmere, and more, this selection is an absolutely essential introduction to the world of Legitimate Snack.
Cinders
CINDERS, Maria Sledmere's U.S. debut, retells an old tale about lateness-how late is it, is it too late, what are the stakes of being too late if it is too late. This lateness, in Sledmere's visionary lyric poems, pervades the structures and strictures of the pop dystopias and erotic utopias she studies: gender, class, geography, space-inner and outer. The very elements of Cinderella that were there all along as the wood burned to ash in the hearth. "Maria Sledmere sneaks up on you. In language that is deceptively intimate and often playful she limns a world of dark, sharp corners, where ecological catastrophe no longer looms but makes itself felt in every aspect of daily life. Intricate and expansive, never alighting on the expected, the poems in CINDERS are both gems and bombs. A subtle stunner of a book."--Anahid Nersessian Poetry.
Unsolved Mysteries
Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Marie Buck's new Roof Book UNSOLVED MYSTERIES collects a group of short prose pieces that mashup stories from the television show Unsolved Mysteries and her reminiscences growing up in rural South Carolina. Buck's work unravels not only the mysteries of the tv series, but also how American popular culture portrays the working class. The violence of the lives and deaths of people named Dexter and Kari Lynn in the tv show inspire in Buck ambitions for social justice, revelatory sexual engagements and hope for clarity in documenting what really happens to people in contrast to the cleaned-up versions of more commercial narratives. Buck keeps hoping people will be alright, but she knows they died in pain and their deaths cause unending sorrow to their families. Such clear and poignant social texts are rare among today's poets, especially when they converge honesty and sympathy. Readers will find no sentimentality in UNSOLVED MYSTERIES, but they may find themselves.
Anthropocene Poetry
Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry. It can also change the way we read and interpret poems. If environmental poetry was once viewed as linked to place, this book shows how poets are now grappling with environmental issues from the local to the planetary: climate change and the extinction crisis, nuclear weapons and waste, plastic pollution and the petroleum industry. This book intervenes in debates about culture and science, traditional poetic form and experimental ecopoetics, to show how poets are collaborating with environmental scientists and joining environmental activist movements to respo...
Twenty-First Century Anxieties
The volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how 21st-century British theatre increasingly intercuts dystopian and utopian elements to create innovative strategies for addressing current social and political concerns. In the case studies, a key role is given to the ways in which the selected plays use real and fictional spaces on stage and thereby manage to construct interactional spaces which the spectators are invited to share.
The Yak Dilemma
In The Yak Dilemma, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal ventures out of the mountain ranges of Palampur and across vast distances of land and sea. From scenes playing out through Dublin windows to ruminating on wearing a Sadri in the West, these innovative mediations are as much about personal identity as they are a testament to the human spirit’s drive to cross territory and forge a ‘map’ of our own. Kaur Dhaliwal’s map, if she has one, is without architecture or foundations; ‘Four walls don’t make a home or a house—it takes some doing’, she writes in Ghazal on Living in a Hotel in Downtown Cairo. She is part of a dynamic new generation of poets pushing the medium into exciting new areas ...
Sleepers Awake
Oli Hazzard's third collection emerges from the daily disarray of care and work, nature and technology. Its ambitious, formally various poems extract 'the ore / from boredom', as memory—personal, familial, social, historical—and the collective memory of poetry itself are wrenched out of shape by dramatic disruptions in rhythm, space and scale. The sadness and pain of forgetting is here too, alongside its unexpected forms of potential. The title, borrowed from the Lutheran hymn that inspired a Bach cantata, catches the book's dreamy, kaleidoscopic, cross-temporal dialogues. Through satirical, allusive, tender, hopeful poems, Sleepers Awake makes spaces for intimacy with the reader, arguing 'through an off-key melody / for the jovial texture of batshit relations, for the pleasure of live-drawing in sceptical company'.
Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water
"Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water brings together five discrete sequences of poems and poem-stories. Moving through different voices and times, landscapes and interiors, Lila Matsumoto's new collection offers a sense of the world as an observed tableau, inviting the reader to participate in the creation of a strange yet familiar world full of ordinary-extraordinary moments." -- back cover.
