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Send – Kay Syrad
ISBN: 9781909077799
£9.99

Lilian is expecting her first child when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis. It is the mid 1950s and her physician decides that she must be separated from her baby until and unless she recovers.

In this daring novella, Kay Syrad explores the reverberations of that momentous decision for Lilian, the grieving mother, for Morley, her doctor, burdened with doubt over his diagnosis and increasingly fixated with the fate of the infant, and for Lucie, the woman who was that abandoned infant.

Syrad combines fiction, notes, analysis and poetry to trace the obsessional and circuitous process involved in exploring truths that cannot be consciously known. With her we are drawn towards conflicting ideas about the nature of early awareness and sense perception, and their implications. The floating presence of these ideas and quotations, layered with competing fictional voices and the author’s interjections, create a highly textured and mesmerising novella from this accomplished writer.

Praise for The Milliner and the Phrenologist

A truly singular piece of writing, in the best of senses. The rhythms and diction are never less than vital and springy, and often they soar into passages of real beauty. The characters, the wit, the convincing historicity – well, everyone will have compliments for those aspects, but it’s on this level of high-aiming, high-achieving craftsmanship that I’ll doff my cap to you.=

Julian Bell, artist, writer and art historian

Author biography

Kay Syrad is a poet, novelist and editor based in East Sussex. She has two poetry collections with Cinnamon Press: What is near (2021) and Inland (2018), and another with Pighog, Double Edge (2012). Kay also has two novels with Cinnamon: The Milliner and the Phrenologist (2009/2012) and Send (2015). She was Poetry Editor of Envoi 2014-2020 and writes articles and reviews for a range of journals. Kay often collaborates with artists: she was the commissioned writer on ‘Last Station’, a multi-media art project exploring the history of British lightships, writing a libretto for a choral piece with composer Trevor Watts, and creating a limited edition book, work of the lightship men: 1000 tasks (2014), which was purchased by the National Maritime Museum. Her art-text work, Exchange, with environmental artist, Chris Drury, is published by Little Toller (2015), and as one half of the composite eco-poet kin’d & kind (with Clare Whistler) she has published a chapbook, h/edge (Elephant Press, 2021) and edited several eco-poetry anthologies, including Wild Correspondings: a source book (also Elephant Press, 2021).

Visit Kay’s site to discover more.

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