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Using the IUCN’s redlist of species at risk as a starting point, Stone Mountain Fairy Shrimp is a playful and uncompromising take on the sixth great extinction (with a fair smattering of poems about woodpigeons). Stone Mountain Fairy Shrimp is published by Guillemot Press. Based in Cornwall, Guillemot produces books with the environment in mind. The cover is made from Favini Crush Grape, a bi-product of the wine-making process, and the inside stock is made with 100 per cent Green-e certified RECs from wind power. The cover art is by CF Sherratt. For more information, and to buy the book, visit the Guillemot Press website |
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How might we live - and make art - in a time of catastrophic climate change and mass extinction? Or as the poem 'How might we climate change' puts it, 'How might we walk among the overlapping spirits? How might we consider the gifts?' Stone Mountain Fairy Shrimp is a work of incantation that challenges and decentres the human 'I' with its perspective shifts, swoops and surreal juxtapositions, its deft and daring formal artistry. This 'vagrant catalogue' collides the language of categorisation with reportage, folklore, and the sensuous, messy unpredictability of lived experience. For me, this is more praise song than litany: passionate, wry, sharp-eyed, and vital.
Kate Potts
Goodman is concerned to engage with impending and actual ecological disasters and our role in them and to place the human and non-human in scale, while accepting, indeed confronting, the limitations of language for the task in hand. |
