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Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group - New Novella Released!
Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group Tangerine Press Edition Release Day
And the old red sun on the land. A slow wind stalks the brush. When the tide out at sea waits to run in green.
Delighted to present a new edition of Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, released today by Tangerine Press.
Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group is the culmination of a decade’s writing, and the final prose offering penned as part of the ‘pilgrimage works’ cycle. The novella charts the journey of a young girl who is impelled to wander an England beset by a mysterious apocalyptic event. In the course of the journey she encounters others that have been uprooted, and all must confront an ineffable delirium which has infected the land.
‘Linguistically inventive, alert in every sense, and propelled with such narrative force that hairs burn on the unsuspecting reader's neck. A classic end-game pilgrimage under a black sun across a spoiled landscape, waiting to be absorbed once again into the marginless sea. The work of a poet in the sway of place, at whatever cost to herself. And to our fragile psyches.’ — Iain Sinclair
Thank you to Sean Stewart for providing the back cover description:
In the midst of an apocalyptic event of unknown provenance – a mass of red spreading north from the southern counties – a young girl sets out on a journey. Along the way she encounters a series of eccentric characters, the few left behind in the wake of a widespread evacuation. Some of these individuals are ravaged and on the edge of death, while others are immersed in their own hermetic practices, be they solipsistic, nihilistic, or otherwise. None wish to engage for more than the brief time necessary to offer their meagre assistance. There is talk of ‘anti-spores’, pools of blood, and of a hum spreading through communication wires. The hum has altered the very appearance of written language, pushing words apart, leaving only single syllables behind. This constraint is present in the third-person narration we read but is removed during periods of dialogue. This results in a rhythmic, chantlike flow to the prose. As with the best of work that employs the tropes of apocalyptic fiction, Rebecca Gransden’s unusual novella ends with many of its questions floating in the scarlet haze it generates, leaving them for the reader to ponder in the wake of what is surely a singular literary experience.
Available in three editions. Specially commissioned artwork by Harry Adams. Eternal thanks to Michael Curran at Tangerine Press for his belief and investment in the novella. Find in all good bookshops and direct from the publisher, where special pre-order prices remain in place until tomorrow 30th May.
https://www.thetangerinepress.com/FIC...
A pilgrimage. An England in delirium.
Watch the book trailer
Delighted to present a new edition of Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, released today by Tangerine Press.
Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group is the culmination of a decade’s writing, and the final prose offering penned as part of the ‘pilgrimage works’ cycle. The novella charts the journey of a young girl who is impelled to wander an England beset by a mysterious apocalyptic event. In the course of the journey she encounters others that have been uprooted, and all must confront an ineffable delirium which has infected the land.
‘Linguistically inventive, alert in every sense, and propelled with such narrative force that hairs burn on the unsuspecting reader's neck. A classic end-game pilgrimage under a black sun across a spoiled landscape, waiting to be absorbed once again into the marginless sea. The work of a poet in the sway of place, at whatever cost to herself. And to our fragile psyches.’ — Iain Sinclair
Thank you to Sean Stewart for providing the back cover description:
In the midst of an apocalyptic event of unknown provenance – a mass of red spreading north from the southern counties – a young girl sets out on a journey. Along the way she encounters a series of eccentric characters, the few left behind in the wake of a widespread evacuation. Some of these individuals are ravaged and on the edge of death, while others are immersed in their own hermetic practices, be they solipsistic, nihilistic, or otherwise. None wish to engage for more than the brief time necessary to offer their meagre assistance. There is talk of ‘anti-spores’, pools of blood, and of a hum spreading through communication wires. The hum has altered the very appearance of written language, pushing words apart, leaving only single syllables behind. This constraint is present in the third-person narration we read but is removed during periods of dialogue. This results in a rhythmic, chantlike flow to the prose. As with the best of work that employs the tropes of apocalyptic fiction, Rebecca Gransden’s unusual novella ends with many of its questions floating in the scarlet haze it generates, leaving them for the reader to ponder in the wake of what is surely a singular literary experience.
Available in three editions. Specially commissioned artwork by Harry Adams. Eternal thanks to Michael Curran at Tangerine Press for his belief and investment in the novella. Find in all good bookshops and direct from the publisher, where special pre-order prices remain in place until tomorrow 30th May.
https://www.thetangerinepress.com/FIC...
A pilgrimage. An England in delirium.
Watch the book trailer
