Join us for the Sheffield Launch of Jemima Foxtrot’s Treasure, supported by Sheffield poet Suzannah Evans with a reading from her new pamphlet Green.
Jemima Foxtrot’s Treasure is a shining work of alchemy and liberation, exploring power dynamics, sex work, desire, and female friendship with a fresh and playful perspective. Foxtrot investigates shimmering sexualities, the economies of desire, the theft of childhood and pathways towards reclaiming it. Her language is lush: intimate, intricate, full of fertile earth’s possibility. The poems of Treasure live up to its name: showing us where the gold is—the joy—how to feed it into the soil of our lives.
“Foxtrot is a savvy, sometimes savage, sensualist; her poetic speakers alert to injustice, but alive to pleasure in every way that counts. These are superbly tactile poems, full of wit, vigour and feminist jouissance.” — Fran Lock
Suzannah Evans’ new pamphlet introduces us to Green, half human, half angry nature spirit. Green serves as a stunt double for our rage and complicity in nature’s destruction, showing us nature’s delights so we may mourn their loss more deeply.
Location:
La Biblioteka, Leah’s Yard, Cambridge Street, Sheffield, S1 4HP
