Mimicry, Eco-grief and Cassettes of Desire
To record a bird’s sound is to connect with urgent questions of inter-relationships between humans, birds and technology, as of death, desire and longevity. Such are the looping concerns of Department of the Vanishing (Transit Lounge, 2026) – a lyrical novel-length collage of poetry, historical and invented textual and visual archives, literary quotes, and speculative prose fiction.
Love in the Wasteland
As millions of tourists descend upon the Greek Islands this summer, the internet will overflow with images: Cycladic homes, ruins, pebbled beaches and blue seas. What we won’t see is the waste—over 200,000 tonnes of it. Much of it will end up in illegal landfill, hidden from sight. It’s this: the waste, the refuse, the silences and the ‘gap of denial’ that Blueberries (Text, 2020) author Ellena Savage seeks to uncover in her debut novel The Ruiners (Summit, 2025).
Queering the Border and Other Transgressions
“Who was there to answer to?” This is the question posed by one of two narrators in Bobuq Sayed’s novel No God But Us (Ultimo, 2026). It is a question also suggested by the novel’s humanist title and Sayed’s dedication “to the transgressors of borders”. In their first full-length fiction, Sayed dreams of a world where the borders are, if not erased, at least made more permeable, and we are no longer answerable to the enforcers of those arbitrary lines.