Patricia Lockwood

A woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. When existential threats begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?"

No One Is Talking about This

"From a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice, a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father." --book jacket.

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Digte. What if a deer did porn? Is America going down on Canada? What happens when Niagara Falls gets drunk at a wedding? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? What would Walt Whitman's tit-pics look like? Why isn't anyone named Gary anymore? The poems' subject is the natural world, but their images would never occur in nature

Motherland, Fatherland, Homelandsexuals

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021 “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice “Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” —David Sedaris From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.

A Novel

No One Is Talking About This

Poetry. All wide awake in a state of delirium, Darcie Dennigan's MADAME X stands at the intersection of the surreal and the historical, an ill communication of the anxieties and ecstasies of the 21st century.

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The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body, she’s afraid of her own floorboards, and the lyrics of ‘What Is Love’ play over and over in her ears. ‘I’m sorry not to respond to your email,’ she writes, ‘but I live completely in the present now.’

Tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side – and with it, the chance for a blinding re-emergence into the world.

From one of our most original, inventive and prodigiously funny writers, Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent, wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times.

Will There Ever Be Another You

Poco se habla de esto

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas" by TheNew York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location- an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange koans and warnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, frequently semi-naked father, who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and discovered a loophole which saw him approved for the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI - despite already having a wife and children. When the expense of a medical procedure forces the 30-year-old Patricia to move back in with her parents, husband in tow, she must learn to live again with her family's simmering madness, and to reckon with the dark side of a childhood spent in the bosom of the Catholic Church. Told with the comic sensibility of a brasher, bluer Waugh or Wodehouse, this is at the same time a lyrical and affecting story of how, having ventured into the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our sense of justice intact.

A Memoir

Michael Robbins

Timothy Thornton

The 'Penguin Modern Poets' are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our moment.

Controlled Explosions

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The Winged Thing

“Lockwood has written a roving chronicle of the madness of illness and the frightening porousness of what it means to be yourself in the hilariously profound way that only she could.” – Vulture “Bonkers.” – The New York Times “Reliably brilliant.” – The Washington Post “A wild, devilishly curious, often hallucinatory ride that’s worth its weight in insights.” – The San Francisco Chronicle From the Booker Prize finalist and “formidably gifted writer” (The New York Times), a vertiginous novel about a woman’s descent into illness and insanity. Amid a global pandemic, one young woman is trying to keep the pieces together – of her family, stunned by a devastating loss, and of her mind, left mangled and misfiring from a mystifying disease. She’s afraid of her own floorboards, and “WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME” plays over and over in her ears. She hates her friends, or more accurately, she doesn’t know who they are. Has the illness stolen her old mind and given her a new one? Does it mean she’ll get to start over from scratch, a chance afforded to very few people? The very weave of herself seems to have loosened: time and memories pass straight through her body. “I’m sorry not to respond to your email,” she writes, “but I live completely in the present now." Will There Ever Be Another You is the brain-shredding, phosphorescent story of one woman’s dissolution and her attempt to create a new way of thinking, as well as a profound investigation into what keeps us alive in times of unprecedented disorientation and loss, from one of our most original writers. Praise for Will There Ever Be Another You “Patricia Lockwood… writes with the impish verve and provocative guilelessness of a peeing cupid.” – The New Yorker “Completely singular… Patricia Lockwood’s body of work is like this: a hymn—or ode, depending on the day—to the painful project of being human.” – The New Republic “The author’s fans will find her trademark humor, originality, and depth on full display. This is a knockout.” – starred Publishers Weekly Praise for No One Is Talking About This “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” —The New York Times “Reading Patricia Lockwood raises questions. Questions such as, How can a person understand both herself and the world with such clarity? How does a person experience things so intensely and express them so buoyantly? Am I laughing or am I crying? Lockwood’s first novel is as crystalline, witty, and brain-shredding as her poetry and criticism.” —Vulture “Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” —David Sedaris “God, is she funny!” —The New Yorker

A new collection(s) of poetry from Booker Prize finalist and Twitter laureate Patricia Lockwood, FINALLY! “God, is she funny!” —The New Yorker Many have called Patricia Lockwood a wordsmith, but in the latest iteration of her life, she has become, quite literally, a metalsmith too. Stones, gems, metals, fossils—she forges them into bodies, faces, and, with her typical irreverence, vaginas. In these poems, a robot dog discovers the Lascaux caves in France. Jane Austen shoots a perfect 147. A rock gets a girlfriend. The Pope blesses McLovin (kind of). Lockwood’s most successful work of metal- and wordsmithing yet is her blend of the Internet world with the natural one, as she slips meme references and algospeak into evocations of geological time, explorations of organic bodies, and observations of youth. Her most personal collection of poetry yet, you may find you understand yourself—and Patricia—more than you’d like to by the end.

Agate Head / Stone Soup

'A furiously original novel, alive and unstable' Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet - or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Who are we serving? Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: 'Something has gone wrong,' and 'How soon can you get here?' As real life and its stakes collide with the increasing absurdity of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Irreverent and sincere, poignant and delightfully profane, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the infinite scroll and a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our times.

No One Is Talking About This: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF SEPTEMBER 2025 THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS, WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body, she's afraid of her own floorboards, and the lyrics of 'What Is Love' play over and over in her ears. 'I'm sorry not to respond to your email,' she writes, 'but I live completely in the present now.' Tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side - and with it, the chance for a blinding re-emergence into the world. From one of our most original, inventive and prodigiously funny writers, Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent, wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times. Praise for Patricia Lockwood and No One Is Talking About This 'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale 'I really admire and love this book' Sally Rooney 'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book' David Sedaris 'A rare wonder . . . I was left in bits' Douglas Stuart

Una giovane donna recentemente balzata alla ribalta per i suoi post virali sui social media viaggia in tutto il mondo per incontrare i suoi fan adoranti. La sua esistenza è ormai un'immersione totale nella navigazione online, nel nuovo linguaggio e negli usi e costumi di quello che lei chiama "il portale". Nemmeno l'incombere di minacce esistenziali di enorme portata (il cambiamento climatico, il dilagare della precarietà economica, l'ascesa di un dittatore senza nome e un'epidemia di solitudine) è in grado di arrestare la valanga di immagini, dettagli e riferimenti che si accumulano per formare un paesaggio che è post-senso, post-ironia, post-tutto. "Siamo all'inferno?" si chiedono gli abitanti del portale. "Continueremo a fare questo fino alla morte?" Improvvisamente, due messaggi di sua madre bucano questa densa cortina di chiacchiericcio digitale: "Qualcosa è andato storto" e "Tra quanto riesci ad arrivare?". Mentre la vita reale e la sua posta in gioco si scontrano con la crescente assurdità del portale, la protagonista si ritrova alle prese con un mondo che sembra contenere sia un'abbondanza di prove dell'esistenza di bontà, empatia e giustizia nell'universo, sia un diluvio di prove del contrario. Irriverente e sincero, struggente e deliziosamente profano, frammentario e onnisciente, scritto da una poetessa come Patricia Lockwood (una delle voci più originali del nostro tempo), Nessuno ne parla è insieme un omaggio pieno di passione all'infinito scrolling, una potente meditazione sull'amore e una riflessione sul valore delle relazioni umane e sulle insidie dei social media.

Nessuno ne parla

Een jonge vrouw reist als social media deskundige de wereld over tot een bericht van thuis haar wakker schudt en de toenemende absurditeit van haar online bestaan in een ander licht zet. In ‘Hier hoor je niemand over’ van Patricia Lockwood reist een vrouw als internetexpert de wereld over voor panelgesprekken nadat haar post ‘Kan een hond een tweeling zijn?’ viraal is gegaan. Het internet, ‘de portal’, bepaalt haar hele bestaan. In reactie op existentiële bedreigingen als klimaatverandering en economische onzekerheid post ze stug door, meer en meer berichten die haar steeds dieper de leegte van de portal in trekken. Als haar moeder haar appt met ‘Er is iets mis’ en ‘Hoe snel kun je hier zijn?’, wordt ze wakker geschud. Het echte leven dringt tot haar door en zet de toenemende absurditeit van haar online bestaan in een ander licht.

Hier hoor je niemand over

Sie ist ein Online-Star. Sie reist um die Welt, um ihre begeisterten Fans zu treffen. Das sogenannte »Portal« ist ihr Medium: In diesem virtuellen Raum fügt sich eine Lawine von Bildern, Details und Referenzen zu einer unendlichen Landschaft zusammen, die Post-Sense, Post-Ironie, Post-Alles ist. Aber was passiert, wenn eine Tragödie in das echte Leben einbricht und alles verändert? »Worüber niemand spricht« ist ein Liebesbrief an Sprache und Literatur und gleichzeitig eine moderne Meditation über Liebe und die Kraft menschlicher Nähe.

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Und keiner spricht darüber

The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our moment. "Is it any wonder I've got too much blood on my hands? The calls are coming from inside the house. I'm sick of my insane demands." - Michael Robbins, 'Peel Off the Scabs' ". . . The childhood of the dunk was no childhood at all. He practiced on a paper route, throwing The Sun to the same place each morning. Did not sleep long but when he slept, the springs of his bed imparted something to him. At night the streetlight floated down and let him dribble it." - Patricia Lockwood, 'The Descent of the Dunk' "if my signal drops it's because i've climbed with them, we're so high now i can in one single inverted yawn of my eyes full of skin and sex and fury see the whole city i so slowly streetlamp by streetlamp from the other side spent my life seeing in a drowning "and this one boy here he's doing he's doing a painting, it's the last day of august, it's a painting of a bed and" - Timothy Thornton, 'Voicemail for David Hoyle'

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