This is How I Fight

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/

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