Of Sirens, Body & Faultlines Sleeping with the Dictionary Joan Brossa (trans

Joan Brossa (trans

raising interior operations to the surface while presenting an antithesis to mimetic construction

and The North East to the banks of the Zambezi river

Following their book Amanda Paradise: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry)

the first collection of Ra’ad’s work in English translation

Of Sirens, Body & Faultlines Sleeping with the Dictionary Joan Brossa (transNat Raha of sirens, body & faultlines is a book of prophecy against this Brexit era, rising from a post 2008 London, where crisis and austerity meet the vanity projects of the super rich. Committed to the immediacy of a present that is precarious and under surveillance, of sirens attends to queer, transfeminist and people of colour counter memories and histories. It seeks new expressions of desire and modes of breath, pushing against the gravities