In Sophie Fletcher’s raw, sensuous and glistening tale Swine Mourn for Their Losses, grief returns Zośka to childhood. From an enchanted farm-world of pigs and hens, wildflowers and leaf-caves, the young girl learns her bearings from her mother’s love. In a rush of nostalgic memories gleaming like mica, we witness the subtle and poignant cycle of grief as the adult Zofia loses her mother, with sections numbered in reverse order. Throughout the motif of swine – as her favourite animal, her pet name – creates a bond between mother and daughter, world and figure. The fragments that shore up the story flow like Virginia Woolf’s ‘moments of being’, their range and intensity is reminiscent of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights or Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart, but the hurried, grieving, marvelling voice is Fletcher’s alone.
A tender and intense tale, rich in curiosity and craft, healing and memory
– Will J. Wood
Sophie Fletcher is a writer from Cambridgeshire, UK. She graduated with a degree in Creative Writing at the University of Winchester in 2013 and has since developed her writing style significantly, finding a voice in micro and flash fiction. She now also runs a small business making ceramics:
This pamphlet is printed and bound by Seedlings, with a letterpress cover illustrated by Corran Green. The first 100 editions are collectors’, handmade by Seedlings Press with this specially printed cover. Please allow us a few days to make and ship your order, and understand any blemishes in the craft of printing and binding as part of the charm.
In Sophie Fletcher’s raw, sensuous and glistening tale Swine Mourn for Their Losses, grief returns Zośka to childhood. From an enchanted farm-world of pigs and hens, wildflowers and leaf-caves, the young girl learns her bearings from her mother’s love. In a rush of nostalgic memories gleaming like mica, we witness the subtle and poignant cycle of grief as the adult Zofia loses her mother, with sections numbered in reverse order. Throughout the motif of swine – as her favourite animal, her pet name – creates a bond between mother and daughter, world and figure. The fragments that shore up the story flow like Virginia Woolf’s ‘moments of being’, their range and intensity is reminiscent of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights or Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart, but the hurried, grieving, marvelling voice is Fletcher’s alone.
A tender and intense tale, rich in curiosity and craft, healing and memory
– Will J. Wood
Sophie Fletcher is a writer from Cambridgeshire, UK. She graduated with a degree in Creative Writing at the University of Winchester in 2013 and has since developed her writing style significantly, finding a voice in micro and flash fiction. She now also runs a small business making ceramics:
This pamphlet is printed and bound by Seedlings, with a letterpress cover illustrated by Corran Green. The first 100 editions are collectors’, handmade by Seedlings Press with this specially printed cover. Please allow us a few days to make and ship your order, and understand any blemishes in the craft of printing and binding as part of the charm.
