Dad Era
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Coach House Books
Publishing:25th Jun '26
£13.99
This title is due to be published on 25th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An irreverent, laugh-out-loud pastiche of free verse, hallmark card, bad truism, picture book, advice website, and meditative reflection on fatherhood.
This collection compels readers to ask what it means to share a heart with another human in a world on the precipice of destruction. Although Abel doesn't have an answer and likely never will, he understands deeply that ‘the bond between a parent and child can sometimes be explained with words.’ Here – brilliant, hilarious, and loving – are those words.
Dad Era explores Jordan Abel's role as a father to his daughter, Phoenix, and his relationship to popular and often toxic constructions of ‘fatherhood’ on the internet. Breaking apart the idiomatic registers that define parenting today using distortion, contrast, sequencing, and palimpsest, all qualities that have come to define his oeuvre, Abel explores what it means to live, laugh, and yes, father ‘in a world without dads.’
Part of Quill & Quire's Spring Poetry Preview
‘Abel’s Dad Era is the literary embodiment of a soft, safe space – a collection of poetry, stories, and imagery that invites us to see fathers as complex and caring beings. This collection follows the ways Abel learns and falters and struggles, yet chooses to keep hoping, loving, and staying present.’ – Tenille Campbell, author of nedi nezu (Good Medicine)
‘Jordan Abel’s Dad Era further advances his long-standing experiment with form and Indigenous narrative. The book teaches us how to read polyphonically, how to read multiple narrative threads at once. Dad Era is indeed about fatherhood but it also about aesthetic complexity and formal restlessness in life and art. It is moving and funny and, like all of his work, deeply considered.’ – Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of The Idea of an Entire Life
Praise for the author:
‘Jordan Abel’s collection Injun evacuates the subtexts of possession, territory, and erasure. Lyric, yes: “that part of sparkling / kn ife love that
ISBN: 9781552455234
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
96 pages