“In Jeda Pearl’s lyrical debut collection, Time Cleaves Itself, a disabled Scottish woman of colour invites you into the split and rewoven threads of her intersecting, in between worlds as she navigates belonging and claiming space. The accordion of time stretches across poems that deliver a sonic meditation on memory, grief, race, illness, empathy and resilience.”
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“Landscapes and bodyscapes are brought into focus through lenses of race, illness, disability and womanhood. Ancestral languages of Scots, Patois, Geordie and English critique ableism, colonialism and Scottish exceptionalism; they ask ‘Who gets the trees?’, honour Caribbean and Scottish heritages and move from the bed as universe to fantastical and science-fictional imaginings. Here, lyrical acts of observation unfold with defiance, tenderness, rhythm and the occasional side-eye.”
We’ve been fans of Jeda Pearl ever since seeing her perform her poetic narrative Caledonian Forest, 3033 at the Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh in July 2022, so it’s a pleasure to be able to sell her latest collection here.
We’re also pleased to welcome Jeda to SF Caledonia, where you can read some extracts from Time Cleaves Itself.