Deep Wheel Orcadia
Winner of the 2022 Arthur C Clarke Award
$37.70
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
25 January 2022
Summary
Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.
Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playfu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529066609 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529066603 |
| Author: | Harry Josephine Giles |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 25 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Aziza's Secret Fairy Door |
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A symphony o yotuns, peedie suns and langships tae Mars, in Deep Wheel Orcadia Harry Josephine Giles hauds the starns in the loof o thier haun, terraformin new warlds in Scots. (A symphony of giants, miniature suns and longships to Mars, in Deep Wheel Orcadia Harry Josephine Giles holds the stars in the palm of their hand, terraforming new worlds in Scots.) – Matthew FittDeep Wheel Orcadia is a mysterious and moving novel in verse about finding home in the farthest reaches. Giles lifts us to new worlds, in space and in language, we could never have imagined. A singular and numinous work – Morgan M Page * author of One From the Vaults *I can’t remember the last time I was this beguiled, this engrossed and this inspired by a book. It’s like nothing else I’ve ever read. It was a joy to feel so entranced by the possibilities and complexities of each and every word. Harry Josephine Giles is a true original and a vital voice – don’t miss this. – Kirsty Logan * author of The Gracekeepers *
About The Author
Harry Josephine Giles
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Edinburgh. Their collection Tonguit was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and The Games for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and Saltire Prize for Best Collection. They have a strong spoken word scene presence - they were the 2009 BBC Scotland slam champion, and their theatre has also toured globally, including Forest Fringe (UK), NTI (Latvia), Verb Festival (Aotearoa) and Teszt (Romania).
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