Where The Land Forgets Itself - The Book

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The final version of Where The Land Forgets Itself, with a new cover by Lucy Lyons.

Featuring Here;Again (debuted as part of An Audience of Judacious Heretics) and Marine Snow (Winner of The 2024 Rosemary McLeish Poetry Prize)

A small island in South East England, slowly vanishing under climate change

A working class community facing rapid gentrification

The boundaries of my body slowly dissolving

Where The Land Forgets Itself is a book about erosion

'The sea is where we go to lose our faith.' The coastal speakers of Where the Land Forgets Itself navigate lethal currents. Psychic and social riptides snatch at the self in a domain where 'Your body drives down / the property value'. Sansby's poems embody these forces through an expert array of sonic and rhythmical means: fluid structures, sculpted silences, toothed phrasing that snaps at the ear. Highly recommended.

• John McCullough

'Where the Land Forgets Itself is both humorous and subversive. It leaves the reader questioning: What is material? What is reality? It is a fundamental quizzing of everything where nothing is assumed but pain, and beauty.'

• Setareh Ebrahimi, Ink Sweat & Tears

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Discount code: the last word on page 9 of the Artists Proof Edition is a typo, whcih will take £5 from the price of this book