microbursts by Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson

Congratulations to Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson, whose collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go, is published by Prototype Publishing today. 

 Originally written by Reeder as an intense text-based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the illnesses and deaths of her parents, it confronts the raw emotions of crisis, grief and creativity.

Formally audacious, linguistically fluid, sensitive and intricate in its visual presentation, microbursts uses the potential and elasticity of the essay form to explore intensely personal, yet universal, experiences and considers the ways in which we can express and communicate these through spatial and linguistic form.

‘microbursts is a sparklingly original, tender book that remakes language with delicacy and verve – finding new ways to speak loss, change and the many layered movements of the self.’ – Rebecca Tamás