Released 26th November 2025
Edition of 100 copies.
ISBN: 978-1-0369-3369-2
“Grief is the thing in pleather: iterative, reshuffling noir signifiers, re-marking punctuation, always to the same end. As Bussey-Chamberlain writes: ‘Last time was not the last time; / I am here again.’ From open field composition glittering in headlit streaks to the short gasps of Emily Dickinson’s lines, in the narrow time of birthing and the contained prose poems of time lived, this brief collection packs in life after life after life, an expansive exploration of Dickinson’s choice of “kindly” for Death’s stop, with all the sardonic seriousness, the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work.” (So Mayer)
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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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