The pedestrian
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Format
Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
1643623117
ISBN-13
9781643623115
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Imprint
Nightboat Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 7th, 2026
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
170 grams
Dimensions
20.20 x 12.80 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry / PoemsPoetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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A poet’s novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement.
Emerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text’s trauma, the poet becomes a ritual detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo—courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement, The pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold—it “listens” as much as it speaks, attuned to forces beyond itself.
Emerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text’s trauma, the poet becomes a ritual detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo—courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement, The pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold—it “listens” as much as it speaks, attuned to forces beyond itself.
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