135 x 210mm, 20 pages, Black and white printing, Saddle stitch, Softcover, 2018

“A re-writing of Hero and Leander, genuine human values is Susannah Dickey’s second pamphlet. Part verse drama, part sequence of free verse and prose poems, it reimagines the Greek myth through a lens of contemporary concerns of the body, reticence, and power dynamics. In this version, a decidedly unheroic protagonist, ‘H’, watches her lover perish in the currents of the Hellespont, and does nothing. In the aftermath of his death, she explores her grief through various interactions with the egotistical ‘A’ and her deranged priestesses, in myriad environs such as a supermarket check-out, a café and a graveyard.”

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