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A poet watches the limbs of a eucalyptus tree get sawed off: the image persists, recurring across poems of art, language, selfhood, memory, and loss. Joan Mitchell said, When I talk about love, I mean loving a tree. When I talk about love, I mean loving where a tree used to be. Men assess the eucalyptus tree growing on the poet’s street; a crane arrives. The sound of a chainsaw rings in the air and branches begin to fall. This tree-cutting haunts the poet, and refracts across the remarkable work collected here as Chang turns her thoughts to artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Mitchell and Hilma af Klint. Roving, evocative, and intricate, this work is rooted in Victoria Chang’s crystalline voice and generous, probing gaze, and by certain images – trees, a hanging figure, a branch, fingertips, a briefcase – that resurface like apparitions.
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This is a story of two prophets. Yara has been chosen by God to slay Dominic, the ruthless leader of the army of Bad Guys. Cast out by their family and reeling from a destructive relationship, Yara has never felt weaker; but with nothing to lose, they reluctantly strike a deal. Abandoning their quiet days of embroidery and obsessive cleaning, Yara embarks on a perilous odyssey designed to prepare them for the daunting mission ahead. Meanwhile Adrena, a disillusioned prophet with a terrifying secret power, is determined to become the hero of this story. Feeling snubbed, and desperate to win back the glory of God’s approval and the promise of heaven, Adrena must first persuade Harpo – the leader of the Good Guys – that her plan is God’s will. Their parallel journeys unfold in a series of unforgettable adventures as they encounter incredible characters, and confront the transformative revelations of love, death and destiny.
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One sunny Sunday, without warning, humankind is reduced to the height of a handspan – an unsightly transformation as potentially fatal as it is inconvenient. On a remote coastal path, Giles awakes in his new body to discover a world reshaped and magnified into a place of astounding abundance and deadly peril. Desperate to reconnect with his loved ones, he seeks the help of fellow survivors, and together they embark on a quest across the altered landscape. But as their journey unfolds, the more the question persists – are they still truly human, or has their reduction in size marked the beginning of a descent into savagery, an evolution into something other? Elsewhere, one week earlier, Professor Elizabeth Goodwin makes a monumental discovery – God is alive and physically among us, but not in the form we’ve been taught to expect.
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On the eve of her wedding, a young woman wrestles with transitions: from adolescence to adulthood, from longing to holding, from womb to birth, from life to death, from darkness to enlightenment, from waking to dreaming, from love to grief. There is only one choice – death or change. In 2023 Imogen Wade won the National Poetry Prize with her poem ‘The Time I Was Mugged in New York City’, gaining her a wide audience. Her debut, ‘Girl, Swooning’, is a startlingly fresh collection about womanhood, love, death and religious experience.
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When Cal Sounder gets a call to say that an unknown woman has washed up dead in a faded seaside down, he dives back into his former role as a detective. Intriguingly, the call comes from the matriarch of a local dynasty, Martha Erskine, a Titan who is almost as old and as powerful as Stefan Tonfamecasca, the man who discovered the drug. As Cal begins investigating, he becomes convinced that the victim’s death may be connected to the strikes and wage disputes that the Erskines are fighting off at their huge manufacturing plant nearby – and what Martha wants to know is whether her family are involved in the young woman’s death.
