Join us at the Common Press at 7pm of September 30th for the launch of lesbian poet Laura Cannon’s debut collection, I Wait for the Halfway Echo.
I Wait for the Halfway Echo is a powerful exploration of queer desire, selfhood and the body, published by eidolon ink, a London-based publisher uniting the politics within books with politics outside them.
SPEAKERS
Laura Cannon: is a lesbian poet from Australia, currently living in London. I Wait for the Halfway Echo is her first book.
Alasdair Cannon: is an Australian writer based in London. He is a co-founder of eidolon ink and author of its first title, Infinite Discontent: Writings on the Allure of Fascism. His debut essay collection, Holding Patterns, was published by Bonfire Books in 2022.
I Wait for the Halfway Echo fixes, with startling poise and clarity of vision, the experience of desire as both a pulsion through the physical body and a force that traverses day-to-day existence, elevating quotidian experiences of pleasure and pain into a cosmic realm that exceeds the human.
From heated dalliances in dark alleys to dry and crusty drug comedowns, from the ever-wanting excitement of the flesh to blood-stained fingernails clawing through the burning Outback, Laura Cannon’s debut poetry collection is an exhilarating treatise on the self’s relationship with its own wanting.
Boldly experimental in form and immediately arresting in imagery, Cannon’s verse explores our sexual desires, our grief, our pain and our pleasure. Ultimately, it asks if desire is an act of our own creation, or something through which we make ourselves.
Pre-order the book here.