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    Near Future
    Near Future
    Near Future
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    Near Future

    By Suzannah Evans

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    Suzannah Evans' debut collection Near Future is doom-pop-poetry with an apocalyptic edge, a darkly humorous journey through sci-fi lullabies and northern mysteries. This is a future simulation stripped of the space-age gloss of progression - one where the robots have gone rogue and the hopes of a new millennium are malfunctioning; this is a skewed yet oddly familiar world gone uncannily wrong.

    These playful, sharp, poems are also about more than dystopias and five types of possible apocalypse - in looking at the worst-case scenarios, Evans comes closer to the bigger narrative; universal truths of change, whether man-made or natural, preventable of inevitable, and the uncertain business of human existence where 'there are disasters that you cannot prepare yourself for'. Evans brings a distinctive, skilful and wonderfully peculiar roving eye to our restless and unpredictable times.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNine Arches Press
    Release dateNov 7, 2018
    ISBN9781911027645
    Near Future
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    Suzannah Evans

    Suzannah Evans lives in Sheffield and has published two poetry books, Near Future and Space Baby with Nine Arches Press. In 2019 she was a Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence, and in 2021 she received a Northern Writers’ Award for poetry. Her work has been described as ‘doom-pop poetry with an apocalyptic edge.’

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      Near Future - Suzannah Evans

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      Near Future

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      Near Future

      Suzannah Evans

      ISBN: 9781911027461

      ePub ISBN: 9781911027645

      Copyright © Suzannah Evans

      Cover artwork: ‘Projections’ © Bryan Olson

      www.bryanolsoncollage.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, recorded or mechanical, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Suzannah Evans has asserted her right under Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

      First published November 2018 by:

      Nine Arches Press

      Unit 14, Sir Frank Whittle Business Centre,

      Great Central Way, Rugby.

      CV21 3XH

      United Kingdom

      www.ninearchespress.com

      Printed in the United Kingdom by:

      Imprint Digital

      Nine Arches Press is supported using public funding through Arts Council England.

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      CONTENTS

      A Contingency Plan

      The Doomer’s Daughter

      Helpline

      The Handover

      Roboblackbird

      Summer with Robobees

      The Dark Museum

      We just passed on the street

      This is The End

      The End of the End of the World

      Sometimes in your own head

      Wholly Communion

      Real Time

      The New Tenants

      The Law of Attraction

      The New Curriculum

      Future Cities

      1. The Censored City

      2. The Floating City

      3. The Plug-In City

      This is England’s greenest city

      This morning the walls

      The Russian Woodpecker

      Reconstructing the Monument

      Underground in the new Meanwood

      The Taste

      Guided Tour

      Wyre

      Trevor on the Long Mynd

      About the Dog

      Naming the Hill

      Coastal Erosion

      Extinct Scents

      De-extinction

      Skies Recorded by the Cyanometer

      The Fatbergs

      The Humans and the Starlings

      Re-wilding

      Craters

      Letter into Eternity

      The Last Poet-in-Residence

      Acknowledgements

      About the author and this book

      ‘The Story Just Keeps Going. You’re Supposed To Wrap It Up All Nicely But It’s Real Life. It’s Hard. So I Think I’m Just Going To Have The World Explode.’

      Michelle Tea, Black Wave

      A Contingency Plan

      What if we’re apart when the asteroid comes

      or the magnetic storm that shuts off the power?

      You could be waiting for a train as the sun’s bulb

      flickers out, high above the glass-panelled roof.

      I’ll be at work. We’ll lose the phone lines

      the door-entry system will go haywire.

      I will eat from the vending machine

      drink from the competition cupboard

      and sleep on nylon carpet with my colleagues

      all of us

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