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Eleanor Among the Saints

  • ISBN-13: 9781800173811
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Rachel Mann
  • Price: AUD $27.99
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  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 01/04/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In 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.

Rachel Mann is a priest, writer and broadcaster. She is the author of thirteen books, including A Kingdom of Love (Carcanet, 2019) and the acclaimed Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory, and God (DLT, 2017). She is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at The Manchester Writing School, and broadcasts regularly, including as a contributor to Thought For The Day.
• Second collection from trans woman writer and Anglican parish priest, Rachel Mann • This collection imagines and reimagines the biography of medieval trans woman, seamstress and sex worker Eleanor Rykener • Mann’s work is a rare example of poetry happening at the intersection of faith, the body, gender and sex • In her most intimate poems, she places her body and past decisions on the line – readers enter hospitals and childhood bedrooms • Includes poems that meditate on priesthood in a time of pandemic and sudden death, exploring how praise is an abiding vocation in a world on the edge of extinction
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