Anamnesis

Iona Lee's debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining exploration of art and artifice, absence and impermanence, truth and tale telling. Characterised by a deep love of language, its music and its magic, these poems reflect on memory, the future and other hauntings. Wittily observed, this collection is an attempt to connect the stars into tidy constellations, and to join the tiny, inchoate dots of self into something traceable and translatable.

Humorous and self-aware, gentle and philosophical, Anamnesisis written in the knowledge that in telling one's life-story, one creates it.

'Artist and writer Iona Lee has long been considered one of the finest spoken word and live poetry performers around' Snack Magazine,10 Best Scottish Books for 2023