Everything That Can Happen: Poems about the Future Isaiah Hull Future Blues hurtles forward

Future Blues hurtles forward

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Everything That Can Happen: Poems about the Future Isaiah Hull Future Blues hurtles forwardEverything That Can Happen contains many kinds of future: an android fills out a passport form; the local cricket pitch is lost underwater; frozen limbs thaw from cryogenic sleep; robotic shoes allow for highspeed parenting. The poems in this anthology explore time, language, changing landscapes, future selves, uncertainty, catastrophe and civilisation. Whether imagining a distant, apocalyptic future or the moment we live in, nudged slightly beyond