Near Future

Suzannah Evans' debut collection Near Future is doom-pop-poetry with an apocalyptic edge, a darkly humorous journey through sci-fi lullabies and northern mysteries. This is a future simulation stripped of the space-age gloss of progression - one where the robots have gone rogue and the hopes of a new millennium are malfunctioning; a skewed yet oddly familiar world gone uncannily wrong.

These playful, sharp, poems are also about more than dystopias and five types of possible apocalypse - in looking at the worst-case scenarios, Evans comes closer to the bigger narrative; universal truths of change, whether man-made or natural, preventable of inevitable, and the uncertain business of human existence where 'there are disasters that you cannot prepare yourself for'. Evans brings a distinctive, skilful and wonderfully peculiar roving eye to our restless and unpredictable times.

About the Author

At the age of nine Suzannah Evans once wrote sponsored poetry for 50p a go. Since then she has had poems featured in magazines including Magma, The Rialto and Horizon Review. She now lives in Leeds, works as a debt counsellor and is Poetry Editor of Cadaverine, an online magazine for writers under 30. She runs writing workshops at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery and is studying for a Masters' degree in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Suzannah was a winner in the New Writing North Northern Writers' Awards. Her pamphlet, Confusion Species, was a winner in the 2011 Book & Pamphlet Competition, chosen by Carol Ann Duffy.