Menagerie Street
by Hilary Watson
“A menagerie of voices, angles, inventions and images – restless yet searching. This collection will take roost in your brain.” – Caroline Bird
Menagerie Street is a striking debut poetry collection inspired by Thrutopia – a movement which imagines ways through to thriving, positive futures for our planet. Formally playful and emotionally generous, Hilary Watson’s poems move between humour and gravity, alive to ethical pressures and attentive to animals, landscapes, queer desire, bodies, and forms of kinship that resist easy definition. With wit, tenderness and hope, she asks how we live, love, and act together, offering poems that are by turns funny, unsettling, and quietly exhilarating.
We'll Meet You There
by Ilse Pedler, Alice Willitts & Hilary Watson
This collaborative collection is inspired by the notion of ‘thrutopia’, a narrative that neither succumbs to the paralysing horror of dystopia nor the disconnected fantasy of utopia. Instead, thrutopias chart a viable path between the two, a route from where we are now to where we need to be.
This pamphlet is urgent and restorative - deeply attentive to the world in its precarity and insistent about the possibility of healing. Weaving the poems of three talented poets together, the polyphony of the collaboration is striking - each voice, while distinct, contributes to a layered experience that resists singularity in favour of a more dynamic and inclusive form of witness.