This Is How I Fight Karin Amatmoekrim

This Is How I Fight Karin AmatmoekrimHow do we maintain connection in times of disruption? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland interrogates gods, beasts and monsters, but not to hammer down simplistic answers. Through a queer perspective, poems shift between human and other, exploring where we might find the courage needed to forge a way through the world, one word in front of the other, proposing kindness as a radical act.

Is it better to risk seeming ‘stay-at-home

as German reunification is called

This Mortal Coil

about:blank is both a playful and deadly serious manifesto about how language shapes who we are or what we might be

and a wife and mother Sara is a courageous voyager

of relationships

These ideas have been the guiding principles behind the poems collected in this volume

unexpected relationships and tender rhythms

Dan is lured into a world of secrets reaching far into the past and with consequences for his future

graphic novelist and poet Martin Rowson reflects on the commodification of music

What does ‘motherhood’ mean to someone who was taken from their mother

Max’s son