Renard Press and Erin Clark are delighted to invite you to the book launch for There's No Pluto in this Suite. Held at the new Bàrd Bookshop in Roman Road in east London, join us to help launch this extraordinary and powerful new poetry collection.
When? Tuesday 29th October, 7 p.m.
Where? Bàrd Bookshop, 341–343 Roman Rd, Bow, London E3 5QR
There's No Pluto in this Suite
Erin Clark
If you want to get back to the beginning
you must fast forward to the end.
I press play, drop into the solar
system à la Holst, somewhere
beyond the asteroid belt,
rocketing ever further out.
The poems in There’s No Pluto in this Suite take the reader to the edges of ordinary experiences, places and narratives and ask them to leap from that ordinariness into the unexpected.
The collection is broken into three parts, and the reader is taken on a ride through verse concerned with the experiences of immigration, travel and transience; then on to a gathering around the hearth, telling stories about what drives humans to live: vocations, love and journeys of discovery; and finally into a mythic realm, encountering holy fools, witchy saints and places of overlap between silly and sacred.
There’s No Pluto in this Suite is a playful collection that blends formal and free verse, lyric and narrative, and in which the profound rubs shoulders with the messy and the patently mysterious.