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Renard Press has secured Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman, the debut poetry collection by Elizabeth Train-Brown.
Publisher Will Dady acquired world English rights directly from the author. Salmacis will be published on 31st August 2022.
Train-Brown is a writer who has been awarded the Wells Festival of Literature Young Poet award 2021, the Ebrace Prize for Poetry 2021 and the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2021. Their journalism on discrimination, asexuality, transgender issues and polyamory has also received widespread recognition.
The synopsis reads: “Drawing on the rich mythological history associated with the tale of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, and re-examining the tale through the lens of metaphor, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman is a stirringly relatable and powerful exploration of gender, love and identity.”
Dady commented: “In the current climate of fear and anti-woke vitriol, we feel it’s never been more important to keep publishing writing that pushes traditional boundaries. Salmacis is a brilliantly evocative and thought-provoking collection exploring gender that forces you to think outside of the binary. Playing with techniques used for centuries, Beth looks at the ‘modern phenomenon’ of questioning gender through a mythological and historical lens, in a way that’s both startlingly frank and immediately familiar. I couldn’t be more proud to be publishing it.”