Tracy Fuad's second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes the fraught experience of bringing a new life into a world that is both lush and filled with gloom. A baby is born in a brutalist building; the planet shrinks under the new logic of contagion; roses washed up from a shipwreck centuries ago are blooming up and down the cape.
PORTAL documents a life that is mediated, even at its most intimate moments, by flattening interfaces of technology and in which language-and even intelligence-is no longer produced only by humans.
The voices here are stalked by eco-grief and loneliness, but they also brim with song and ecstasy, reveling in the strangeness of contemporary life while grieving losses that cannot be restored. Through Fuad's frank, honest poetry, PORTAL vibrates with pleasure and dread.
| ISBN: | 9781068488078 |
| Publication date: | 23rd July 2026 |
| Author: | Tracy Fuad |
| Publisher: | the87press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
Tracy Fuad's second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes the fraught experience of bringing a new life into a world that is both lush and filled with gloom. A baby is born in a brutalist building; the planet shrinks under the new logic of contagion; roses washed up from a shipwreck centuries ago are blooming up and down the cape.
PORTAL documents a life that is mediated, even at its most intimate moments, by flattening interfaces of technology and in which language-and even intelligence-is no longer produced only by humans.
The voices here are stalked by eco-grief and loneliness, but they also brim with song and ecstasy, reveling in the strangeness of contemporary life while grieving losses that cannot be restored. Through Fuad's frank, honest poetry, PORTAL vibrates with pleasure and dread.
PORTAL features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
PORTAL is available in Paperback
PORTAL was written by Tracy Fuad and published by the87press
PORTAL has 96 pages
£15.29