CINDERS, Maria Sledmere's U.S. debut, retells an old tale about lateness-how late is it, is it too late, what are the stakes of being too late if it is too late. This lateness, in Sledmere's visionary lyric poems, pervades the structures and strictures of the pop dystopias and erotic utopias she studies: gender, class, geography, space-inner and outer. The very elements of Cinderella that were there all along as the wood burned to ash in the hearth.

"Maria Sledmere sneaks up on you. In language that is deceptively intimate and often playful she limns a world of dark, sharp corners, where ecological catastrophe no longer looms but makes itself felt in every aspect of daily life. Intricate and expansive, never alighting on the expected, the poems in CINDERS are both gems and bombs. A subtle stunner of a book."--Anahid Nersessian

Poetry.

Author: Maria Sledmere
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Krupskaya
Published: 02/12/2024
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9781928650447

About the Author
Maria Sledmere is an artist, editor, educator and writer based in Glasgow. She is the author of over twenty creative publications including An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun (Hem Press, 2023), Cocoa and Nothing - with Colin Herd (SPAM Press, 2023), Visions & Feed (HVTN Press, 2022) and The Luna Erratum (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021). With Rhian Williams, she co-edited the anthology the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020). Maria lectures in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, is managing editor of SPAM Press and teaches writing workshops for Beyond Form and the87press.