Joanna Walsh’s Vertigo has been dizzying reviewers in the US this autumn / fall, where the book has already been published by Dorothy, a publishing project. Steph Cha in the Los Angeles Times had this to say:
Think Renata Adler’s “Speedboat” with a faster engine … Clocking it at 120 pages, “Vertigo” reads with the exhilarating speed and concentrated force of a poetry collection. Each word seems carefully weighed and prodded for sound, taste, touch. Her diction is plain; her style high. “You will live with me there all your life: a little canker that does no real harm, folded into your skin,” Walsh writes in “New Year’s Day,” addressing a thought from her narrator to a lover.
Read the full review here and check out the cover and reviews for Vertigo on our Vertigo book page. We publish March 2016 in the UK and Commonwealth (excluding Ireland). Can’t wait!