Marine Objects / Some Language

Marine Objects is a sequence of poems based on the artist Eileen Agar’s sculpture Marine Object (1939). Ekphrastic, fractal, these poems unfold via repetition and the gradual development of language, lines, sound, and themes. Some Language takes the sea as its starting point, with poems set by shorelines, inside creaking boats, and balanced above rockpools, looking closely at the life found in these places.

Like the “brittle blushing objects, all briny” that they describe, Suzannah V. Evans’ poems are to be handled delicately and marveled at. - Isabel Galleymore

Suzannah V. Evans has published poems in ENGLISH, The London Magazine, New Statesman, and Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII, with others broadcast on BBC Radio Bristol. She has read her work at Keats House, London, where she organised Keats House: New Poets, for York Literature Festival and StAnza Poetry Festival, and at Underfall boatyard in Bristol, where she was poet in residence in 2019. She is the winner of the 2020 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and of a 2020 Northern Writers’ Award from New Writing North. Her two poetry pamphlets, both published by Guillemot Press, are Marine Objects / Some Language and Brightwork.

The Guillemot Offcuts series presents out of print work from some of our illustrated limited edition titles in a text-only format using paper offcuts left over from some of our other productions. This means you might see this title dressed in a range of different cover stocks. Not only does this series reduce paper waste but it also allows the poetry to remain visible in an affordable pamphlet edition. Please note: The picture to the left does NOT reflect the actual colour of the title. The cover colour will vary depending on the stocks and offcuts are available at the time of printing.

Marine Objects / Some Language was originally published by Guillemot Press in 2020 in an illustrated limited edition double-pamphlet designed by Chloe Bonfield.