As a special offer, you can buy all four Seedlings Summer Pamphlets for just £28, a £12 saving!
The pamphlets are:
Millie Woodrow – Venus in the Forest
A sensual and spellbinding tale of loss and love. Millie Woodrow’s Venus in the Forest wades knee-deep into the organic matter of poetic language with a dark and arching tenderness. Intertwining myth and fantasy, Woodrow traces shapeshifting bodies around the ghosts of grief and memories. The skin of words in Venus are dripping wet with salt and earth – finding solace in the heart of the forest. A mesmerising read.
Spencer Wood – fain
Inspired by Keats’ unfinished Hyperion epics, Spencer Wood’s fain explores the world-reshaping power of queer intimacy. Accompanied by beguiling semi-abstract line drawings by Ben Skinner, these devotional poems are unabashedly romantic without becoming saccharine. Ethereal domestic bliss clashes with apocalyptic anxiety; the grotesquerie of dead rats brushes up against the innuendo of back garden ejaculation. Messy, tender, modern and timeless, Wood’s voice imagines new forms of belonging.
Quincy Saul – Utah 2025
Quincy Saul’s Utah 2025 is a transcendent tale blending nature- and travel-writing, poetry and polemic. Wandering the North American West with a notebook, a flute and the works of his beloved authors Edward Abbey, Martin Prechtel, and Everett Ruess, it is an adventure in words and rocks. Saul takes his personal pain into the ‘profuse pantheon’ of the wilderness, far from the ‘megamurdering megamachine’ of civilisation. He finds layers of knowledge, traditions, geology and ancient rock art, and the more these old ways draw him in, the more his pen is sharpened to denounce the idea of development. Witnessing this development in the long tradition of the exploitation and destruction of nature and native communities, Saul’s writing is as full of grief as wonder. This is a piece of work that asks what it is to be a travel writer, to be human and begs us, what will you fight to protect?
Sophie Fletcher – Swine Mourn for Their Losses
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.
As a special offer, you can buy all four Seedlings Summer Pamphlets for just £28, a £12 saving!
The pamphlets are:
Millie Woodrow – Venus in the Forest
A sensual and spellbinding tale of loss and love. Millie Woodrow’s Venus in the Forest wades knee-deep into the organic matter of poetic language with a dark and arching tenderness. Intertwining myth and fantasy, Woodrow traces shapeshifting bodies around the ghosts of grief and memories. The skin of words in Venus are dripping wet with salt and earth – finding solace in the heart of the forest. A mesmerising read.
Spencer Wood – fain
Inspired by Keats’ unfinished Hyperion epics, Spencer Wood’s fain explores the world-reshaping power of queer intimacy. Accompanied by beguiling semi-abstract line drawings by Ben Skinner, these devotional poems are unabashedly romantic without becoming saccharine. Ethereal domestic bliss clashes with apocalyptic anxiety; the grotesquerie of dead rats brushes up against the innuendo of back garden ejaculation. Messy, tender, modern and timeless, Wood’s voice imagines new forms of belonging.
Quincy Saul – Utah 2025
Quincy Saul’s Utah 2025 is a transcendent tale blending nature- and travel-writing, poetry and polemic. Wandering the North American West with a notebook, a flute and the works of his beloved authors Edward Abbey, Martin Prechtel, and Everett Ruess, it is an adventure in words and rocks. Saul takes his personal pain into the ‘profuse pantheon’ of the wilderness, far from the ‘megamurdering megamachine’ of civilisation. He finds layers of knowledge, traditions, geology and ancient rock art, and the more these old ways draw him in, the more his pen is sharpened to denounce the idea of development. Witnessing this development in the long tradition of the exploitation and destruction of nature and native communities, Saul’s writing is as full of grief as wonder. This is a piece of work that asks what it is to be a travel writer, to be human and begs us, what will you fight to protect?
Sophie Fletcher – Swine Mourn for Their Losses
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.
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