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Seed

Joanna Walsh

No Alibis Press

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A queer non-coming-out story about sex, adolescence, class, fear and contagion in the 1980s: a lush, sensual experimental novel with a hidden linguistic constraint.

Seed's narrator is on the threshold of adulthood, living in an English valley in the late 1980s when life is overshadowed by fears of nuclear contagion, AIDS and CJD. Composed in narrative threads of poetic prose, Seed explores universal themes of restriction and desire, delving deep into the narrator's subjective consciousness and demonstrating the polyphonic discourse - fashion magazines, art, public health advice - and relationships that shape her becoming.

'By resisting representational narrative, this book works like a 3D printer. Language is the raw material, laid down layer by layer, until the solid object of the story is formed. Non-conformist, hypnotic, incantatory, and satisfyingly strange.' — Jeanette Winterson

 

'Seed is Joanna Walsh's best book, and that's saying something.' — Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold

 

'Seed is a marvel. Each page Joanna Walsh writes shines with such vividness and depth, painting a distinct vision that compels the reader to gaze again, to gaze ever deeper.' — Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat

 

Joanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer for print, digital and performance. The author of seven books, she also works as a critic, editor and teacher. She is a UK Arts Foundation fellow, and the founder of #readwomen, described by the New York Times as 'a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers'.

 

No Alibis Press, 2021, 201pages.
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