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The Pharmacy is an extended exploration of family, loss, and the indignities of British medical institutions. Building a landscape that is at once influenced by autotheory, life experience of care, and a fervent critique of austerity, this is a fiery second collection from Kat Sinclair.

The poems of Kat Sinclair'sThe Pharmacy'cannot write through / as (they) are supposed to', but struggle to stand, love, grieve, wriggle, spit jokes from within brutal desiccated infrastructures, learning machines, the last things left to be stolen away from us. Where 'the hospital is a factory', out of the deadness of memeified language and bloodied pop-cultural dreck, these side-eye-lyrics don't just transcribe addictive assaults on attention but hold to our aftermaths, without healalls. They bring on an interruptive headrush to run ungoogleably with the sabs, at communism, at 'new ways of speaking', however brokenly, however thickly, however in pain, at what you've been told, lied to for all your life is impossible.- Dom Hale

In these dense, lucid poems, the personal and political intertwine and elegy is reformed, revitalised: now lyrical, now stubborn, now taking you by surprisewith their humour.The Pharmacyshocks and soothes, jars and lulls: this is a collection deeply of and defiantly againstits time. - Helen Charman

Kat Sinclair is a poet living in Southampton and a 2024 PhD candidate researching the political economy of feminised robots. She is the author of Very Authentic Person (the87press, 2019), PLEASE PRESS (Sad Press, 2022), and pamphlets with Face Press and Earthbound Press. Her work has also appeared in The Chicago Review, Datableed, and in collections from SPAM Press and Dostoevsky Wannabe. She runs the Placeholder poetry reading series between Brighton and Southampton.