Offworld by Kirsten Luckins

These poems navigate the journey of two runaways as they planet-hop through a disintegrating empire of colonized worlds. Inspired by processes of mistranslation and ekphrasis, Kirsten Luckins takes us through an experimental sci-fi high-flyer where octopi seek out strip clubs and anything can be bought at a spaceport. Beautiful, shocking, funny and prescient these poems defy easy explanation, and present us with glimses of ruined and defiant futures. Kirsten Luckins is a poet and performer from Teesside, and founding director of spoken word organisation Tees Women Poets. Her work has been widely published in magazines from Butcher’s Dog to Magma, and her third collection Passerine (Bad Betty) was longlisted for the Laurel Prize for Eco-Poetry. She is interested in ekphrasis, ecopoetics and experimentation generally.

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