See You Through

By: Geoff Gilbert, Alex Houen

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Paperback | 28 August 2025

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188 Pages

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Geoff Gilbert and Alex Houen's See You Through: A Novel is a formally restless, genre-collapsing hybrid that inhabits the threshold between poetry and fiction. Structured around a shifting dialogue of voices and modes, the book navigates illness, intimacy, war, bureaucracy, and facial recognition technology with a syntax that veers between the lyrical and the analytic, the fragmentary and the fluid. Language becomes a site of both fracture and connection, as the text resists linear narration in favour of a porous, polyphonic architecture. What emerges is a work that holds complexity with conviction: self-aware, searching, and structurally bold.

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It's quite wonderful, properly strange, a totally absorbing phenomenology of desire, memory, being-in-the-world, with the additional dimensions of constructed matter, constricted vision, soft bodies and their alter-octopods, gaps and openings and pain and sadness, and everywhere a knowing but wrenching lyrical innocence bursting into sideways ironic glances at it all.

- Ian Patterson

Fingering 'the crack / between what happens and what is', Houen and Gilbert's poem-novel See You Through is a totally new kind of poem, which is also a totally new kind of novel. Written in lockdown and online, the narrative pitches its tent amidst the 'sumptuary destruction' of surveillance capitalism and pandemic. Don't just read it for the story; remember the tenderness of sea creatures and boys.

- Andrea Brady

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