Friends!
We are two days into September and 1) i cannot believe it’s already September but also good riddance to 2020? and 2) i cannot believe akinoga press has FOUR BOOKS coming out over the next four months!
That’s right, you read correctly, friends: four more books will be rounding off the press’s 2020 publishing roster.
First up is Jessica Hylton’s Gag Order, a collection of erasure poems cultivated from Trump speeches, will be launching Tuesday, September 29th.
And, if that date sounds familiar, it is the first presidential debate of the 2020 campaign. The following night (as part of the virtual launch), i will host an author’s talk with Jess to discuss, among other things, the process of her book and writing overtly political poetry during the Age of Trump.
A spotlight and preorder page for Gag Order will be up later this week!
Next is the second volume of Jack Slocomb’s stunning collection, Native Tongue. Vol. 2 covers the green, warm months of Spring and Summer, when the Earth flings itself into life, and will be released on October 19th. I know, i know: the 19th of October falls in neither Spring nor Summer, it marks the year anniversary of the release of Vol. 1, which gives the launch a nice symmetry.
A few weeks later, on November 11th, Plant Power Sisterhood, an anthology of Indigenous writing, edited by Jenny Fraser, launches. It will be akinoga’s first ever anthology and features Indigenous writers and artists from across Australia and the Pacific islands celebrating the power of Nature and calling for its renewal.
And capping off the 2020 publications another first for akinoga: the fabulous pleasure novella Nadia written by Mary Adele, which will launch on the night of November 30th, which also just so happens to be the night of the last lunar eclipse of 2020. And, once you read Nadia, you’ll understand why no other night would do justice for her launch.
That’s it, friends! Those are the 2020 books. I cannot wait to get them into your lives.
–mz
