Böcker i Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five-serien

Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already-fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified. Cadence captures the poet's point of view as a new mother, revelling in a position of heightened vulnerability and ferocity.

A book about a way-making and way-finding. It is a journey, both internal and external, across a map, over borders, through a life, and in a body. It is passage and pilgrimage, odyssey and exile. Above all it is a book of questions.

These poems are stories, are seeds, are secret messages cast and sent across the natural world to a reader, where they blossom in the imagination. The plot is `scatter-wild', the lyrics `all willful and fallow'. Carter's language serves as a garden, rich and strange, full of acorns and ink and ash, and in it the green world is overturned, recycled, and remade.