The Adept

By: Tom Proverbs-Garbett

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Paperback | 11 February 2025

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58 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 0.36

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In a cold, hard city, Chresta and Eran are searching...

Interrogating their story in lyric poetry, The Adept examines the frequent disconnect between urbanites living side by side and the dangerous power relations in unorthodox belief systems — colloquially, cults and the cult-like. Our protagonists wrestle with their need for engagement in a world of increasing isolation via home offices and online fora. With the metaverse just around the corner, Chresta and Eran encounter callous users preying on the disenfranchised alongside, potentially, offerings of something profound — a sense of belonging in an increasingly fragmented world.

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Psychologically perceptive and sharply observed, The Adept is a glittering, fractured and affecting narrative, animated by a range of contemporary anxieties. It takes the reader on an unsettling journey through belief, doubt and paranoia in taut language and faceted imagery. - Kevin Mills

The Adept is the work at once of an adept story-teller, and an inventive poet, who tells his story with flex and flair, moving between a fluent free verse, and an imaginative inhabitation of inherited forms. Lapidary renditions of mood, and sketches of environment combine with a compelling story, to create a genuinely novel lyric-based narrative poem. - Clare Connors

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