The Gallery of Upside Down Women by Arundhathi Subramaniam Pura López Colomé Featuring ten beautiful full-page paintings

Featuring ten beautiful full-page paintings

and poems about the history of how humans have imagined these amazing beasts

nourishing (to use Lola Olufemi’s term) packets that contain many future poetries within them through the honour they offer to substance/s

Each one engages with the real world

It is a triumph of imagination that she is able to empathise with other forms of oppression

The Gallery of Upside Down Women by Arundhathi Subramaniam Pura López Colomé Featuring ten beautiful full-page paintingsArundhathi Subramaniam's poems map a wobbling world, trying to find its axis in a season of change. Fabrics tear, lands splinter, stances harden, loved ones die, names dissolve. But wandering through these pages are some extraordinary women women who vault nimbly over borders, walk naked, walk aslant, and sometimes upside down. Leaping from the past into a global present, these exuberant voices offer tips on how to retain one's spine through life's