Bøker i Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five-serien

These poems are stories, are seeds, are secret messages cast and sent across the natural world to a reader, where they blossom in the imagination. The plot is `scatter-wild', the lyrics `all willful and fallow'. Carter's language serves as a garden, rich and strange, full of acorns and ink and ash, and in it the green world is overturned, recycled, and remade.

Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already-fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified. Cadence captures the poet's point of view as a new mother, revelling in a position of heightened vulnerability and ferocity.

A book about a way-making and way-finding. It is a journey, both internal and external, across a map, over borders, through a life, and in a body. It is passage and pilgrimage, odyssey and exile. Above all it is a book of questions.