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New Arcana

By Jessica Traynor

New Arcana

By Jessica Traynor

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With a cover by renowned comic book artist Lisa Sterle, the poems in Jessica Traynor's New Arcana explore grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies. Moving from teenage friendship and destructive relationships towards a tangling with the realities of family life, domesticity, and desire, this highly inventive collection builds into a heartbroken letter to a dear friend (personified in the poems as 'lydia deetz') who died by suicide. Interwoven with numbered poems from a newly imagined Major Arcana, New Arcana celebrates both the holding on, and the letting go. Among other awards, Jessica Traynor has received Hennessy New Writer of the Year and the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry 2023. New Arcana is her fourth collection, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Dedalus and Pit Lullabies (2022) from Bloodaxe.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
100
Release Date:
2025-11-18
Publication Date:
2025-09-25
Publisher:
Bloodaxe Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1780377495
ISBN13:
9781780377490
Weight:
240 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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