Near Future
Near Future by Suzannah Evans is a debut poetry collection published by Nine Arches Press in 2018. This 70-page work presents a unique blend of doom-pop poetry with an apocalyptic edge, exploring themes of dystopia and the complexities of human existence. The collection invites readers into a world where the future is stripped of its optimistic veneer, revealing a landscape filled with rogue robots and malfunctioning hopes.
In this collection, Evans crafts playful and sharp poems that delve into five types of possible apocalypses while also addressing broader narratives of change and uncertainty. The work reflects on universal truths surrounding human existence, emphasizing the unpredictable nature of life and the disasters that can arise unexpectedly. With its darkly humorous tone and distinctive perspective, Near Future offers a thought-provoking exploration of contemporary issues through the lens of poetry.
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Suzannah Evans’ debut collection Near Future is doom-pop-poetry with an apocalyptic edge, a darkly humorous journey through sci-fi lullabies and northern mysteries. This is a future simulation stripped of the space-age gloss of progression – one where the robots have gone rogue and the hopes of a new millennium are malfunctioning; this is a skewed yet oddly familiar world gone uncannily wrong.
These playful, sharp, poems are also about more than dystopias and five types of possible apocalypse – in looking at the worst-case scenarios, Evans comes closer to the bigger narrative; universal truths of change, whether man-made or natural, preventable of inevitable, and the uncertain business of human existence where ‘there are disasters that you cannot prepare yourself for’. Evans brings a distinctive, skilful and wonderfully peculiar roving eye to our restless and unpredictable times.
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