Some notes on NOTES OF A MONGREL’S DNA:
… This is a poetics of enquiry through echo, fragmentation, obfuscation, cut and splice reproduction. An interrogation of the constituent elements of a self, through which we are as much aware of the importance of what's missing as what's present. — Jacob Sam-la Rose
…She dissects ‘hybridity’ as wound, as lacuna, and as formation. The work follows branching pathways — torn through violence, sewn with love — through lineage, culture, race, memory, and the body. — Prerana Kumar
…But the reader must also admit this language is broken and question the gaps, places where national indeterminacy can’t articulate itself with the terms given to it. Maybe indeterminacy is the wrong word: the text is fully aware of the cultures that constructed it and, in so being, reveals their limits. All this makes Notes of a Mongrel’s DNA a much needed addition to the heritage of visual poetry. — Richard Capener
Lydia Hounat's Notes of a Mongrel's DNA is so good. In its refusal to explain or gloss. In its splayed, woven forms. In its cut-ups of phrases, names, places (re)mixed and estranged. In its transformation of racial melancholia into a shimmering chromosaic. This is work to make them scream. — Will Harris
She promises to be a major force on the British literary scene. — Malika Booker
OUT NOV 30TH 2023
OUT NOV 30TH 2023
My debut text from Hesterglock Press is a series of visual meditations on mixedness and mongrel-ness.
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Cover Art: Rupert Phillips.
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