of sirens, body and faultlines

Raha, Nat

ISBN 10: 1911343475 / ISBN 13: 9781911343479

Published by UEA Publishing Project, 2018

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Synopsis:

of sirens, body & faultlines is a book of prophecy against this Brexit era, rising from a post-2008 London, where crisis and austerity meet the vanity projects of the super-rich. Committed to the immediacy of a present that is precarious and under surveillance, of sirens... attends to queer, transfeminist and people of colour counter-memories and histories. It seeks new expressions of desire and modes of breath, pushing against the gravities that would rather these lives and worlds disappear.

While arguing with the radio may seem futile, syntax, punctuation, grammar and the page must still all be mobilised to help create new conditions of possibility for collectivity, for poetry to speak. Raha's exceptional, experimental, queer lyric mobilises all aspects of language to reveal contradictions of capitalism and defuse populist rhetoric. This is a writing of city life against the flows to capital; labouring bodies speaking back to the demands of work and the fictions of xenophobic politicians. It concerns herstory, transfeminism, collectivity; the everyday of South East London, transformation and decolonisation, through counter-memories, anti-memoir, and a trans poetics.

About the Author: Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her previous collections of poetry are countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010). Nat is co-editor of the Radical Transfeminism zine, and is completing a PhD on queer Marxism and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex.

Bibliographic Details

Title: of sirens, body and faultlines
Publisher: UEA Publishing Project
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: PAP
Condition: New