Deep Wheel Orcadia

Astrid is returning home from Mars art school in search of inspiration. Darling is escaping a life that no longer fits her, looking for a place to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a faraway space station fighting for existence as the community's rate of development threatens to leave it behind. Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction poetry tale written entirely in Orkney dialect. This one-of-a-kind excursion in minority language poetry is accompanied by a parallel translation into fun and vibrant English, ensuring that no detail of the original is lost.

The rich and diverse cast weaves a compelling, lyric, and an effortlessly readable story about place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love, and desire – all with the lightness of touch, fluency, and musicality one would expect from one of Scotland's most talented poets in recent years. Harry Josephine Giles, from Orkney, is well-known as a brilliant poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work. Deep Wheel Orcadia now ventures into adventurous new territory.

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Author: Harry Josephine Giles
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/58320923-deep-wheel-orcadia