Thank you Graywolf Press & Netgalley for this Advanced Reader's Copy!

Now available!


The idea of poetic lineage shines bright in Saskia Hamilton's collection All Souls. I was greatly intrigued by the way Hamilton interrogated the source texts and created interesting ideas! I do wish the reader had more time to.digest some of the ideas or linger just a little longer with the complexity of.the peice.

Reading Saskia Hamilton’s All Souls is not a pleasant experience. The writing is disjointed and less than poetic, and encountering it is like reading someone’s diary or notebook out of order. Did not finish.

Day 28 of #TheSealeyChallenge 2023. All Souls by Saskia Hamilton published by Graywolf Press.

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What a terrible loss. “I passed through, I should have paused,
there were a hundred doors. One opened.” I’m honored to read this preview from @NetGalley

Some of my favorite moments:

To listen to our own breathing and to someone else’s is to experience someone’s else:

When thoughts are left without a body to animate them, marks on the paper indicate someone was here.

Thank you to Graywolf Press and NetGalley for an ARC of this lovely upcoming release!

A gorgeous compendium of poetry and prose, this collection is a thematically disjointed, ethereal meditation on the observed and previously unspoken in a limitless dance through time, space, and vibrant, blatant truths.

Hamilton crafts this looping tale with unapologetic truth and a refusal to shy away from stark reality, though the work itself reads as a widely-experienced dream, complete with waking horrors and slumbering cravings, presented without judgement, with a tenderness that speaks to the creation of a deeply personal and yet incredibly universal experience.

With unique stylistic determination and a visceral adoration for complexities in the seemingly ordinary, with a defiant refusal to accept suffering even as its undeniable presence is being contended with, Hamilton creates a stunning, delightfully aching portrait of what it means to be human.