Poetry
We Are All Just Animals & Plants
- Publisher
- Metatron Press
- Published
- 2016
- Pages
- 72
- ISBN
- 9781988355016
- Language
- English
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The team behind the book
- Cover
- Charlotte Picotte
There are names for all sorts of things,
So why shouldn't there be names for
the gradient before the camera focuses,
the way it’s always pink or grey;
for all the futures we invent,
which will one day be pasts that never happened
Predator and prey, host and parasite; symbiosis, evolution, competition. Nature is a complex web of relationships and dualities. In his debut poetry collection, We Are All Just Animals & Plants, Alex Manley maps the “red in tooth and claw” of the natural world onto contemporary relationships, exposing the brutality of longing and the highs and lows of love in the digital age.
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Also by Alex Manley
From Metatron Press
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Aqueous Mind Bath
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Wavering Futures Kawai Shen
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Lateral Sway Hannah Karpinski
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all the time Xiaoxuan Huang
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Opening Ceremony Laura Marie Marciano
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Continuum Ivanna Baranova
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The Snakes Came Back Lora Mathis
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The Choice Is Real Jayson Keery
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Little Fury Casey Bell
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Thirty Marie Darsigny
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Para-Social Butterfly Šari Dale
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New Infinity Bára Hladík
