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Seized by the Left Hand – Set of 3

Dundee Contemporary Arts 2019 no ISBN Acqn 30198
Pb 13x20cm 96pp £12

This new trio of chapbooks has been published on the occasion of the exhibition Seized by the
Left Hand at Dundee Contemporary Arts, an international group exhibition which takes as its
starting point some of the ideas contained within American writer Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 novel
The Left Hand of Darkness.

It would be impossible to undertake a project inspired by Le Guin without championing new forms
of writing, poetry and storytelling and we are thrilled to be able to publish these three chapbooks
containing texts by CAConrad, Huw Lemmey and Tuesday Smillie and an introduction in each by
Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese.

CAConrad's powerful text weaves prose and poetry together to articulate a compelling position of
resistance to binary states within capitalism and patriarchy. Huw Lemmey has written a beautiful
text about travelling with stories and how we might use Le Guin's feminist writing on the origins of
fiction to delve into our own minds and learn about ourselves. Tuesday Smillie's razor-sharp
essay embarks on a close analytical reading of The Left Hand of Darkness from a contemporary
transfeminist position.

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