Coming. Apart.
Edy Poppy author May-Brit Akerholt translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Publishing:20th Nov '25
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 20th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
In the stark, poetic voice that garnered her novel Anatomy. Monotony. cult status in Norway and abroad, writer and performance artist Edy Poppy offers a vision of sexuality and alienation unlike any other.
The sharp, sensual stories of Coming. Apart. chart the unraveling of relationships in all their complexity. From rural Norway to Berlin, Edy Poppy follows characters caught between intimacy and escape—lovers who drift, clash, fracture. A couple’s erotic games slip into something darker. A woman retreats to the countryside, shadowed by memory. Another navigates obsession, ambivalence, and solitude with uneasy clarity.
Written in a voice that is both visceral and exacting, Edy Poppy's first story collection moves along the fault lines of connection and desire. Blurring fiction and lived experience, Poppy offers a fierce meditation on what it means to stay—or leave.
“Edy Poppy is a courageous writer who dares to transgress the limits most of us set for ourselves. But she does it so playfully and with such elegance that the reader can’t resist coming along to explore forbidden realms. Anatomy. Monotony. has become a cult classic in many circles, and I see no reason why Coming. Apart. should not have the same impact.” —Elle
"Fantastic!" —Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
"There is a riveting, devil-may-care impulse in Poppy’s use of language and in her perspective. Sheexplores mood nuances and emotional variations in the magnetic field between euphoric highs and pathetic lows." —Nora Simonhjell, Morgenbladet
“Coming. Apart. is a knife-edge book that confirms that women have taken over the writing of interesting short stories." —Vidar Kvalshaug, Aftenposten
"The words flow with velvety smoothness, softly and lightly in spite of their gravity. Delightful!” —Anita Hartviksen Ravn, Rana Blad
ISBN: 9781628976281
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
125 pages