In Bright Machine, international award-winning poet Canisia Lubrin re-frames the history of civilisation as one of arms race, where human ingenuity is put in service of destruction and intelligence is weaponised against life.
Adopting the fragmented rhythms of Morse Code to score this book-length poem, and forging a new poetic form called 'the tesseract', Lubrin uses the music and geometry of industrial modernity to reckon with the myths of the developed world, its instruments of ruin, its heirs and casualties. In doing so, she echoes the famous William Carlos Williams adage, 'a poem is a small (or large) machine made of words'.
Written during the years where major armed conflicts ignited in Sudan, Ukraine, Palestine, Venezuela and Iran, Bright Machine is a lightning rod for all that is elided from the triumphant narrative of empires and asks if we can imagine another way of co-habitation. Epic and dazzling in scale, tender and urgent in voice, Bright Machine is the collection for our turbulent times, a song pulled from the noise.
| ISBN: | 9781837316694 |
| Publication date: | 20th May 2027 |
| Author: | Canisia Lubrin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |
In Bright Machine, international award-winning poet Canisia Lubrin re-frames the history of civilisation as one of arms race, where human ingenuity is put in service of destruction and intelligence is weaponised against life.Adopting the fragmented rhythms of Morse Code to score this book-length poem, and forging a new poetic form called 'the tesseract', Lubrin uses the music and geometry of industrial modernity to reckon with the myths of the developed world, its instruments of ruin, its heirs and casualties. In doing so, she echoes the famous William Carlos Williams adage, 'a poem is a small (or large) machine made of words'.Written during the years where major armed conflicts ignited in Sudan, Ukraine, Palestine, Venezuela and Iran, Bright Machine is a lightning rod for all that is elided from the triumphant narrative of empires and asks if we can imagine another way of co-habitation.
Bright Machine features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Paperback, Hardback. £11.69, down from the £12.99 cover price. Pre-order. 20th May 2027.
Bright Machine was written by Canisia Lubrin and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Bright Machine has 96 pages
£11.69, reduced from £12.99. Pre-order. 20th May 2027.