Book of Hare

<p>Book of Hare is a debut poetry collection that pulses with the primal terror and ecstasy of transformation; a crafted work where the boundaries between woman and hare hunter and hunted perpetrator and victim collapse into a single haunted consciousness.</p><p>At the heart of this collection lies a figure who is both and neither: a woman who becomes hare a hare who dreams in woman-tongue. This duality is not metaphor but lived reality-a metamorphosis born of violence survival and an ancient knowing that precedes language itself. The hare runs until her blood boils; the woman tears at words until meaning fragments and reforms. They are one creature caught in the double blinded vision of trauma and transcendence.</p><p>Book of Hare speaks in the pre-lingual tongue of survival in guttural rhythms and singing chants. The hare who eats words and regurgitates them as seedlings. The wire-tight throat that sings a pure note a high note. The transformation of victimhood into a terrible generative power.</p><p>A poetics of the hunted that refuses to be silent that transforms the violence done to bodies-human and animal female and wild-into utterance that is both accusation and incantation. These poems will not let you look away. They demand that we see the hare and the woman as one that we recognise the blood sport of our world that we acknowledge the witch we have scapegoated and the wilderness we have destroyed. </p><p>In reading Book of Hare we enter the Great Wood where words become roots and roots become speech. We follow the hare's mad dash. We feel the tongue-tied tongue unfurl. We witness empowerment and disempowerment not as opposites but as the same transformation seen from different sides-much like writing turned upside down and seen from the wrong side where meaning remains strange and true.</p><p><br>This is poetry as survival. This is poetry as testimony. This is the hare's relentless run and her refusal to be silent.</p>