A Night in the Country delete Isa Grutter

Isa Grutter

Kaleidoscopic Eye departs from an argument between André Breton and Roger Caillois

One night in the summer of 2023 when I was developing the last negatives for this project the temperature in my darkroom reached 100 degrees

No Finish Line” suggests we can shape a better future by simply daring to create it

Every era is faced with watershed moments that signify the end

A Night in the Country delete Isa GrutterSelected by Louise Glck as Winner of the 2023 Changes Book Prize, Laura Newberns second collection is a work of burning, restrained urgency that looks at loss, isolation, the passage of timeand what endures despite. Written in a town that was once home to the worlds largest asylum, these poems are studies in the dual nature of that idea: asylum, always both a protection and an exile. The country of these poems is not, or not only, the idyllic backdrop