Material Properties by Jacob Polley Julia Copus Adnan explores the exhausting struggle

Adnan explores the exhausting struggle for acceptance after being forced into exile

“If God is a Black woman

urgent subjects

rural and urban - and her place within it

This beautifully illustrated collection brings together

Material Properties by Jacob Polley Julia Copus Adnan explores the exhausting struggleMaterial Properties asks what it might mean to interpret and translate wildness into human language and human understanding. The book is a multi faceted and vital exploration of the non human, the elemental and the borders between existences. Through poems of parenthood at a time of environmental emergency, and poetic versions of Old English riddles in which animals, objects and natural phenomena speak, the book poses essential questions about our