• MATERIAL WITNESS by Aditi Machado
  • MATERIAL WITNESS by Aditi Machado
  • MATERIAL WITNESS by Aditi Machado
  • MATERIAL WITNESS by Aditi Machado
  • MATERIAL WITNESS by Aditi Machado

MATERIAL WITNESS by Aditi Machado

152 x 211mm, 80 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2024

In Material Witness, the poet as human subject keeps vigil over the material world as the quotidian unfolds. The line between observer and observed blurs as non-human agency reveals itself, its own kind of witnessing. In her long poem “Concerning Matters Culinary” inspired by the first Latin cookbook, Machado activates the living matter of gustatory life with wry humor and subtle critique. Encouraging us to eschew nostalgia for deep presence, Machado’s poems remind us that “experience is phenomenal in its segues.”

Published by

Nightboat Books

Regular price £12.99