The Bee Book
Ann Rosenberg author Stephen Cain editor Eric Schmaltz editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Invisible Publishing
Publishing:11th Dec '25
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 11th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A surreal story of honeyed sweetness, predatory stings, and metamorphosis.
In a coming-of-age story inspired by second-wave feminism, the intelligent and curious Habella confronts her passions and those of the men around her. From her first period, to unsettling sexual encounters, to her dissatisfying life as a mother and wife, The Bee Book follows Habella as she negotiates the complexities of her desires as they conflict with the oppressive norms of patriarchy. In this genre-defying work that brings together fiction, poetry, visual art, games, and more, we follow Habella—deeply inspired by the lives of bees—as she seeks self-liberation.
Originally published in 1981, this new edition features an introduction by Stephen Cain and Eric Schmaltz.
“The Bee Book is a brilliantly intricate dance recreating for the reader distant regions of imagination, fanciful stratospheres of invention, into which few bees—or few writers—dare to fly.”—Cathy N. Davidson, Canadian Literature, 1985
“The Bee Book is open, rollicking, a mish-mash of letters, poems, diagrams, charts, photographs, typographical verse, purple passages, jokes… but the book is rich, inventive.”—Marian Engel, author of Bear
“Poetic passages full of innuendo”—The Globe and Mail, 1982
“This book makes its impact through poetry, often concrete, often suggesting sound, through drawings and diagrams, mostly of bees, through black and white photographs, as much as through its sensuous and often erotic prose.”—Canadian Book Review Annual, 1981
“The book is a balanced metaphor of self-actualization… the heroine allows herself only one choice: bee-ing or nothingness”—Calgary Herald
ISBN: 9781778430794
Dimensions: 203mm x 127mm x 12mm
Weight: unknown
208 pages