Released 31st January, 2023 // 88 pages // 978-1-913642-59-4
 
Terra Forming by Chloë Proctor offers a mess-making of language and grammar through the prism of contemporary eco-poetry. In this collection the natural world is re-conceived in the semantics of the digital world, fungi, in particular, play a prominent role in Proctor’s out-sourcing and unravelling of descriptive linguistics. Terra Forming is a prescient and innovative addition to the flourishing garden of eco-poetry.
 
PRAISE for Terra Forming:
This soulful wail repositioned through an ecological poethics is a must read for all as we process the inherent catastrophes of climate death under capitalism whilst also searching for ways in which we can resist it collectively. A keenly woven experimental flair taps into the need for alter-political mobilisations for the future of our planet, Proctor captures in and through these delicate traces of drift, shift, and witness a distinct voice that is grieving for the earth. This grief, however, names the desire to fight for the future and to fully take cognisance of the critical juncture we are grounded in and defined by. A stellar work.
   — Azad Ashim Sharma, Against the Frame
 
ABOUT Chloë Proctor:
Chloë Proctor is a London-Irish mulchy poet and massage therapist. Her work grapples with generating grammar ecologies and with exploring alternative patterns of sense making. She was a poet in residence as part of Can Serrat’s Narrativa Colectiva residency in Barcelona, January 2023. She is a former member of The Crested Tit Collective and the former Assistant Editor of The Babel Tower Notice Board. She graduated from Royal Holloway’s Poetic Practice MA programme in 2021.