Event Horizon

With poems that contemplate the everyday—errands, gardening, dog walks—or confront the white-body supremacy of local sunbathers, Cate Marvin reckons with the hurt of our patriarchal world. She faces her own past, toxic relationships, and ponders what we can gain by leaving some loved ones behind.

Her brilliant fourth poetry collection exists just outside of calamity. Set between the violent realm of patriarchy and the bright otherworld of female agency and survival, these are poems of pointed humour and quick intellect, radical exposure and (re)vision. At Marvin's table, the knife of domesticity becomes a threat, sharpened and shined. Misogyny pulls the sheets from the bed; motherhood wails from the backseat of the car; our hero is ghosted (abandoned, haunted) by past friends and beloveds. Event Horizon asks, at what point do we disappear into our experiences? How do we come out on the other side?