Time Cleaves Itself

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"ground-breaking, lyrical first collection" - Peepal Tree Press.

"bounding, intelligent wondrousness" - Anthony Vahni Capildeo

"An exciting debut collection... the inventive use of vernacular electrifies the page" - Shash Trevitt, Poetry Book Society

Guardian Poem of the Week

🌌 In Time Cleaves Itself, by Jeda Pearl, a disabled Scottish woman of colour invites you into the split and rewoven threads of her intersecting, in between worlds as she navigates belonging and claiming space. Landscapes and bodyscapes are brought into focus through lenses of race, illness, disability and womanhood. Here, lyrical acts of observation unfold with defiance, tenderness, rhythm and the occasional side-eye. The accordion of time stretches across poems that deliver a sonic meditation on memory, grief, disability, belonging, empathy and resilience.

Jeda Pearl is a Scottish Jamaican poet​, fiction author ​and arts programmer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work often traverses/reflects the ‘in between’, exploring intersections of be/longing, (intergenerational) memory, illness and disability, speculative worlds, secrecy and survival. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Jerwood Poetry Award.

ISBN: 9781845235888

Paperback

Book cover design Kezia Lewis.

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