A5, 51 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025

Eleanor Tennyson’s fixation on seduction and power reshapes contemporary lyric with subversive glamour. These poems question the ethically familiar, jolting the reader off well-trodden paths into an undergrowth where the ruinous, the sacred, and the profane glint and starve in uneasy proximity. Desire rattles through the scrub, fragmenting and reassembling like a fresco of splendour and decay. It grows our appetite again for the magic of poetry.

“Eleanor Tennyson is a poet I’ve been waiting for, and The Submissive arrives like a clamorous response to an unspoken hope. The language of these poems is, as is the case with the language of every poet who matters, tuned to Tennyson’s particular outlook, and is her own language, and yet it evokes a response in the reader as if it were commonly spoken. These are poems to live with for a long time, new as they are.

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