Adventures in poetry
This Is How I Fight
Rosie Garland
ISBN: 9781916760189
eISBN: 9781916760196
Price: £11.99
Publication date: 19th June 2025
Format: Paperback / eBook
Territories: World
Extent: 72pp
DCF: Poetry Collections
How do we maintain connection in times of disruption? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland interrogates gods, beasts and monsters, but not to hammer down simplistic answers.
Through a queer perspective, poems shift between human and other, exploring where we might find the courage needed to forge a way through the world, one word in front of the other, proposing kindness as a radical act.
Rosie Garland has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries. She writes poetry, short and long fiction, song lyrics and things that fall between and outside. She sings with post-punk band The March Violets. Poetry collection What Girls Do in the Dark (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize 202. Her latest novel The Fates (Quercus) is a retelling of the Greek myth of the Fates, and Val McDermid has named her one of the most compelling LGBT+ writers in the UK today. In 2023, she was made a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rosiegarland.com/
Rosie Garland’s dauntless and enthralling new poetry collection, What Girls Do in the Dark, invites us to leap into deep space - across a universe where light, names, place and time become the “distance between things that stand like sisters”. We venture through strange night-time transformations, between northerly points and places of being and not-being. In a twilight alive with glimmering energy, we discover not just outer-space, but inner space – where the body and the self are made of infinite galaxies, illuminated for the briefest blink of a life.
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