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Nick Norton,
SHAPES FOUND FOR LIVING, 2025
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Bridget Penney, SONIA’S BOOK, 2025
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Sonia’s Book follows Sonia Campbell Penney, a professional gardener, keen botanist, and the author’s aunt. Her ‘book’ is a copy of Natural History in the Highlands and Islands by F. Fraser Darling, interleaved with eleven sheets of plant specimens,, collected around Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands in May 1961. Penney asks what a close, though thoroughly unscientific, consideration of these unmediated traces might reveal.
Shapes Found for Living offers short tales—rumours and fables coalescing from the uneven experience of living in this century and vivifying the reader’s imagined memory theatre. The collection moves from rude immediacy via questioning forms of language depicting unstable mental states, the near madness of trying to live or love, to the absurd remnants of an (envisioned) ancestral recall.
Shapes Found for Living offers short tales—rumours and fables coalescing from the uneven experience of living in this century and vivifying the reader’s imagined memory theatre. The collection moves from rude immediacy via questioning forms of language depicting unstable mental states, the near madness of trying to live or love, to the absurd remnants of an (envisioned) ancestral recall.