We’re so excited to announce Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s latest collection will be forthcoming from Osmosis Press this October!
This collection is a consideration of and a writing through what it means to live with grief, where Death becomes an embodied figure who runs both literally and figuratively through the text. Borrowing from Emily Dickinson’s figure of death in ‘because I could not stop for death’, this collection mixes Wiz Khalifa from Alena Smith’s Apple TV series Dickinson, Waldrop’s palimptext method, Denise Riley’s Time Lived Without Its Flow, Randy Schilt’s And The Band Played On, and The Dead Poet’s Society, to challenge conventional renderings of death, grief, citation, alongside the banality of bodies and their upkeep.
Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of two books of poetry, Retroviral* (Veer, 2018) and {Coteries} (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017), and the co-author of House of Mouse with SJ Fowler (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017). Her critical work includes two monographs, The Feminist Fourth Wave: Affective Temporality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Queer Troublemakers: Poetics of Flippancy (Bloomsbury, 2019). Her debut novel Bone Horn was published in June 2025 with Cipher Press.
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