The Luna Erratum

The Luna Erratum is Maria Sledmeres first poetry collection. Maria is an artist occasional music journalist and poet based in Glasgow as well as being editor-in-chief at SPAM Press and member of A+E Collective. Her pamphlets include nature sounds without nature sounds (Sad Press 2019) Rainbow Arcadia (Face Press 2019) infra-structure - with Katy Lewis Hood (Broken Sleep Books 2020) Chlorophyllia (OrangeApple Press 2020) neutral milky halo (Guillemot Press 2020) Sonnets for Hooch with Mau Baiocco and Kyle Lovell (Fathomsun 2021) varnish//cache (If a Leaf Falls 2021) Polychromatics (Legitimate Snack 2021) and Soft Friction - with Kirsty Dunlop (Mermaid Motel 2021). With Rhian Williams she co-edited the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene (Dostoyevsky Wannabe 2020) and her poems were included in Makar/Unmakar (Tapsalteerie 2019) an anthology of contemporary poets in Scotland edited by Calum Rodger. Her poem Ariosos for Lavish Matter was highly commended in the 2020 Forward Prize and an epistolary work with Katy Lewis Hood Tangents was longlisted for the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize. A collaborative exhibition The Palace of Humming Trees (2021) was recently presented at Glasgows French Street Studios with artist Jack OFlynn and curator Katie OGrady. Praise for The Luna ErratumThe Luna Erratum offers no truth except in things - colours materials beings dreams schemes of language human artefacts and locations - and their known convergences all of which hold as much affective weight and capacity for transformation as the events that precipitated this profoundly graceful unsettling and mesmerising book.- Sophie Collins author of Who is Mary Sue? (Faber 2018)