Marine Objects / Some Language

Marine Objects is a sequence of poems based on the artist Eileen Agar’s sculpture Marine Object (1939). Ekphrastic, fractal, these poems unfold via repetition and the gradual development of language, lines, sound, and themes. Some Language takes the sea as its starting point, with poems set by shorelines, inside creaking boats, and balanced above rockpools, looking closely at the life found in these places.

Like the “brittle blushing objects, all briny” that they describe, Suzannah V. Evans’ poems are to be handled delicately and marveled at. - Isabel Galleymore

These are poems to hold onto with both hands, as the pamphlets of Marine Objects / Some Language tenderly hold each other. Prising the two apart “as if they are the twin halves of a soft razor shell” is to watch - hold your breath! - an intricate balancing act of language and image, poet and lobster pot. - Holly Corfield Carr

Suzannah V. Evans has published poems in PN Review, The London Magazine, Magma, and elsewhere, with others broadcast on BBC Radio Bristol and longlisted for the 2019 and 2018 Ivan Juritz Prize. She has read her work at Keats House, London, where she organised Keats House: New Poets, for York Literature Festival, and at Underfall boatyard in Bristol, where she was poet in residence in 2019. She is Reviews Editor for The Compass, a reviewer for the TLS, and an AHRC-funded doctoral researcher at Durham University.

The pamphlets are fully illustrated by Chloe Bonfield, an illustrator, writer and researcher working in London and the South West.

Marine Objects / Some Language are interlinked pamphlets. Both are printed in full colour on Mohawk Superfine papers and Singer sewn.

Limited Edition
ISBN 978-1-9160605-7-9
140 x 165mm and 140 x 184mm

PLEASE NOTE: Although Marine Objects / Some Language sold out quickly, a simple pamphlet text-only version is now available in our Offcuts series. Please visit here for more details.