Languishing, Cute - Ian Macartney & Maria Sledmere (Tapsalteerie Poetry Books) record in her words and drawings

in her words and drawings

systematic exclusion of women in male-dominated fields

‘Every day

Anneli Schütz

Languishing, Cute - Ian Macartney & Maria Sledmere (Tapsalteerie Poetry Books) record in her words and drawingslanguishing, cute presents a collection of jittery missives that propels the speculative Scottish canon of Morgan, Gray and Mitchison into a maximalist high femme goth surrealism via hyperpop, Celtic futurism and digital culture. Here the poets tend towards e pistolary contemplations of retro adolescence, fizzy ecology and mercurial slippy gurlhood to complicate notions of Scottish identity, nationhood, ecology, nostalgia and more. Ian Macartneys