Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024 Ruth Stacey an Arab minority denied Kuwaiti

an Arab minority denied Kuwaiti citizenship rights

ambivalence and eternal impermanence

2040 as both future and event-horizon: the reader leaves the book warned

the poems of Somewhere Else Entirely are shadowed by the death of her husband Alan Sillitoe

Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2024</b> Ruth Stacey an Arab minority denied KuwaitiIn her second collection, Mann wrestles with the questions and possibilities raised when trans identity, faith and the limits of myth and language intersect and are tested. Eleanor Among the Saints is a study in the queer joy found in counter factuals and fantasy, shaped through the prism of the disputed story of Eleanor Rykener, a medieval trans woman, seamstress and sex worker. Carcanet