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Deep wheel Orcadia | Harry Josephine Giles
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Deep Wheel Orcadia is, effortlessly, a first: a science-fiction verse novel written in the Orcadian dialect, it’s also the first full-length book in the Orkney language in over 50 years
Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.
Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science fiction verse novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire – all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space.
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Overview
Deep Wheel Orcadia is, effortlessly, a first: a science-fiction verse novel written in the Orcadian dialect, it’s also the first full-length book in the Orkney language in over 50 years
Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.
Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science fiction verse novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire – all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space.
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award
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I enjoyed this, but may have to reread it in English to see what my mind makes of the ending. (Read as printed with Orkney dialect and English on same page.)

Poetry & science fiction at the same time.

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rwmg It sounds intriguing. Wishlisted 8mo
Dilara @rwmg Same here! 8mo
bnp @rwmg @dilara It win the Arthur C. Clark award in 2022 if that's further inducement. 8mo
Dilara @bnp It is! 😄 8mo
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Deep wheel Orcadia | Harry Josephine Giles
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Im loving this science fiction novel in two languages in verse.

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Started Deep wheel Orcadia and my #LPMBC Daughter of mystery.

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Goal is to read Mama Ionesco A Report in Kin & all of Deep wheel Orcadia.

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❄️the smell of evergreen



🌨️ the tagged book