Seed by Joanna Walsh

'Seed is Joanna Walsh's best book, and that's saying something.' Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold.
'Seed is a marvel. Each page Joanna Walsh writes shines with such vividness and depth, painting a distinct vision that compels the reader to gaze again, to gaze ever deeper.' Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat
COMING 3 JUNE 2021
Pre-order for £13.50, thereafter £14.99.
Pre-orders include a limited edition postcard of Joanna's art.
Paperback Edition
PRICE: £14.99 (or pre-order for £13.50)
ISBN: 978-1-8381081-0-6
DIMENSIONS: 237 x 172 x 200mm
PAGES: 200
Illustrated B&W
Printed on Munken Premium White 90gsm Paper with French Fold Jacket.
Limited Edition Set
PRICE: £45
ISBN: 978-1-8381081-1-3
Illustrated B&W
The limited edition of SEED is presented in a case and includes the paperback edition along with six illustrated chapbooks. Each chapbook contains a disentangled narrative vine from the novel.The chapbooks are saddle stitched and bound in a French Fold Jacket. Joanna has created original artwork to accompany the text. A limited edition print will be included in each set.
To pre-order a limited edition, please contact David or Emma: info@noalibispress.com
Play Joanna's 'spontaneous-looking generative artwork inspired by fractal natural forms' Thicket
Synopsis
A queer non-coming-out story about sex, adolescence, class, fear and contagion in the 1980s: a lush, sensual experimental novel with a hidden linguistic constraint.
Seed's narrator is on the threshold of adulthood, living in an English valley in the late 1980s when life is overshadowed by fears of nuclear contagion, AIDS and CJD. Composed in narrative threads of poetic prose, Seed explores universal themes of restriction and desire, delving deep into the narrator's subjective consciousness and demonstrating the polyphonic discourse - fashion magazines, art, public health advice - and relationships that shape her becoming.
This project is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's National Lottery Fund.
Praise for Seed interactive app (Visual Editions, 2017):
'Understatedly poised and laconically lyrical, Seed has an elegiac quality akin to prose poetry.'
Houman Barekat, The Irish Times
'Drenched in colour, sound and scent.'
Thomas MacMullan, The Times Literary Supplement
'A work of subtle craft and layers of quiet, intricate beauty.'
Julian Hanna, 3:AM Magazine
'As a bildungsroman the book also depicts wonderfully, and at times comically, the difficulty of learning to express oneself.'
Thea Havlin, Review 31