Trammel is a radical book of poetry for an uncertain future.
Voracious in her critique of modernity, Charlotte Newman ranges across the spectra of social and sexual politics – from Brexit to the Bechdel Test via Renaissance art and vintage computer games.
These poems are stylish, muscular and linguistically agile. Always driven by a musical engine, Newman weaves the hard language of politics, technology, finance, science and the law into a new lyric texture. Urbane yet uncompromising, Trammel is the powerful debut collection from a voice that demands to be heard.
Pre-orders posted on 30 September
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Praise for Trammel
Expansive, punny and feminist, Trammel doesn’t fetishise, mysticise, or posture a ‘violence’ towards language, but reminds us how vast, daft and absorbent a material it is when aimed towards complexity. Drawing on an impressively broad field of allusion, register and tone, Charlotte Newman rhymes (when she wants to), nods, deadpans, and generally knows over furniture, calling bullshit, and leaving you with a kind of high-grade, finely-tuned, productive confusion.
Jack Underwood
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Charlotte Newman will be appearing at
17 Sep LONDON Poetry Book Fair
29 Sep LONDON Waterstones Piccadilly
5 Oct LONDON Keats House (official launch)