New-Fangled Rose
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Goose Lane Editions
Publishing:24th Mar '26
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 24th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Like a rose blooming out of season, the poems in Sue Sinclair’s newest collection are unexpected, unforgettably beautiful, and an unwavering gesture toward the slow emergency of climate crisis. With the lyrical brilliance and keen eye trained on beauty that’s characteristic of Sinclair, New-Fangled Rose reaches toward the light with reverent hands, photosynthesizing it into poems that are deft, musical, and unquestionably alive.
These poems cast a wide gaze over a fragile world, offering vibrant elegies to luna moths and crab apples, fireflies and trilliums. They examine what it is to build relationships in a world that feels increasingly precarious, like at any moment, something may end; like at any moment, something may begin.
New-Fangled Rose chooses to survive climate anxiety through tender attention and finds divinity in small things when hope feels fleeting. These pre-emptive elegies grieve the species and embodiments we will lose to climate crisis, but Sinclair offers them this “headlong feral kind of care” while they are still here. -- Rebecca Salazar, author of Antibody
These poems leave behind a gratifying ache: they’re full of Sinclair’s intoxicating thinking-through, images that make my head rush, but also the “beautiful tar, satisfying grime” that oozes from the heart of being-here. I came out of New-Fangled Rose feeling a little sadder, a lot more vulnerable to being changed by whatever weird beauty awaits. -- Dominique Béchard, author of One Dog Town
ISBN: 9781773104645
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
Weight: 155g
80 pages