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Injecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem, Nat Raha's invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry. Amidst the violence of capitalism and state and imperial power, there is Nat Raha's apparitions (nines) is at once a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet, as well as an ode to beauty, collectivity, and tenderness which emerges from-and far surpasses-constraint.

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“Nat Raha has written some of the most exciting poetry of the last decade. Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary – with great quickness and nimble intensity, her syllables and survival codes dash through police-lines as high-level transmissions signaling absolute solidarity, insisting that other lives are still possible. Originally published as a series of home-made pamphlets that seemed to come as much from post-punk zine culture as from avant-garde poetics, it's good to see them gathered here in one place for the first time and as a body of evidence of a culture of struggle. These poems do not merely comment on that struggle, but emerge from within it. They are poems that break open a space in which to think through what has happened, who we have been, and what has been done to us. These are fearsome times. Raha writes poetry that acknowledges that fear and refuses to flinch in the face of it, which is in itself an act of the fiercest solidarity.” —Sean Bonney  “From the anthropomorphic pastoral of All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands we remove to Nat Raha’s ‘metropolitik love.’ familiar locations set to strange, subtle musics that float over a ‘visual digitised to characteristic white caterwaul. ’In a richly impure diction culled from Middle English to current technical vocabularies a synaesthetic lyric ‘soaks the recolour.’ Orpheus singt, indeed.” —Adrian Clarke

“Nat Raha has written some of the most exciting poetry of the last decade. Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary – with great quickness and nimble intensity, her syllables and survival codes dash through police-lines as high-level transmissions signaling absolute solidarity, insisting that other lives are still possible. Originally published as a series of home-made pamphlets that seemed to come as much from post-punk zine culture as from avant-garde poetics, it's good to see them gathered here in one place for the first time and as a body of evidence of a culture of struggle. These poems do not merely comment on that struggle, but emerge from within it. They are poems that break open a space in which to think through what has happened, who we have been, and what has been done to us. These are fearsome times. Raha writes poetry that acknowledges that fear and refuses to flinch in the face of it, which is in itself an act of the fiercest solidarity.” —Sean Bonney  “From the anthropomorphic pastoral of All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands we remove to Nat Raha’s ‘metropolitik love.’ familiar locations set to strange, subtle musics that float over a ‘visual digitised to characteristic white caterwaul. ’In a richly impure diction culled from Middle English to current technical vocabularies a synaesthetic lyric ‘soaks the recolour.’ Orpheus singt, indeed.” —Adrian Clarke

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Dr. Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work focuses on transfeminism, LGBTQ+ genders and sexualities, practices and collectives of care and social reproduction, racial capitalism and decolonization, and critical theory, across poetry, print cultures, art, politics, liberation movements and hi(r)story. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland

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