Description
Your island is sinking.
This rainy kingdom. This deflated swamp. This sulky empire where it’s always Tuesday morning.
The process is already underway, but there’s still time before it all collapses - so why not take a tour?
Grotesque, whimsical and ever so slightly furious, Stefan Mohamed’s new collection is a surreal itinerary for an end-of-the-road trip. No lessons. No catharsis. Just the journey and the sinking land.
Drive safely!
“It’s rare to feel the thudding sadness and crumminess of England skewered with such elan. It’s a bit like coming home from a few nights in literally any city on the continent, no actually, literally any city in the world, still high on their grace and multiplicity and public luxury. And then having to spend ninety minutes on a carcinogenic Tube train next to a man eating a whole chicken with his hands. But what I want to suggest to you is that that’s good, actually, and cathartic, or enematic, and somehow in the slew of everything that suffocates every spark of joy, invention, hope or transfiguration, Stefan Mohamed locates a via negativa towards something better.” - Luke Kennard, Forward Prize Winner, author of Notes On The Sonnets (Penned In The Margins)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stefan Mohamed is a performing poet, author and freelance editor based in Bristol. He is the author of the Bitter Sixteen Trilogy and Falling Leaves (Salt Publishing), spoken word collection PANIC! (Burning Eye Books) and poetry pamphlet The Marketplace of Ideas (Stewed Rhubarb).
His poetry and comedy videos can be found at youtube.com/bigdumbvoid, and he is always on Twitter (@stefmowords).
