An impassioned new collection from the Forward Prize-winning poet
Volvelle, Rachael Boast's fifth poetry collection, highlights the need to remember old forms of connection in an era of fragmentation and technological acceleration. Her title embodies something of this in its elegant, recurring consonants - conjuring love, revolve, evolve, the volvelle a circular paper chart of rotating parts for calculating the cycles of the sun and the moon.
There are poems here in conversation with Akhmatova, Cocteau, Lorca, Mirabai, Tennyson and Sufi poetry, while others move in the atmospheres of French, Polish and Spanish arthouse cinema. Boast's coolly passionate collection also explores the need for a sense of place and belonging, and enquires into the overlap between disability and 'the body politic' with a fusing of poetry and reportage on global conflicts and ecocide.
With a keen sense of roots and interrelatedness, Volvelle circles the question of what it means to stay human in our age of anxiety, unrest and hyper-materialism.
| ISBN: | 9781037400476 |
| Publication date: | 23rd July 2026 |
| Author: | Rachael Boast |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Disability: social aspects Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |
An impassioned new collection from the Forward Prize-winning poet
Volvelle, Rachael Boast's fifth poetry collection, highlights the need to remember old forms of connection in an era of fragmentation and technological acceleration. Her title embodies something of this in its elegant, recurring consonants - conjuring love, revolve, evolve, the volvelle a circular paper chart of rotating parts for calculating the cycles of the sun and the moon.
There are poems here in conversation with Akhmatova, Cocteau, Lorca, Mirabai, Tennyson and Sufi poetry, while others move in the atmospheres of French, Polish and Spanish arthouse cinema. Boast's coolly passionate collection also explores the need for a sense of place and belonging, and enquires into the overlap between disability and 'the body politic' with a fusing of poetry and reportage on global conflicts and ecocide.
With a keen sense of roots and interrelatedness, Volvelle circles the question of what it means to stay human in our age of anxiety, unrest and hyper-materialism.
Volvelle features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
Volvelle is available in Paperback
Volvelle was written by Rachael Boast and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Volvelle has 96 pages
£11.69