Released May 31st, 2025 // 54 pages // 978-1-917617-07-9 // RRP: £9.99
 
Elenia Graf’s Conscious Tongues is a visceral, formally inventive collection that undertakes an autopsic exploration of hunger and the body parts it inhabits. Moving from feet to scalp, these poems dissect dykehood, trauma, and the ouroboros of emptiness and consumption with scalpel-sharp intimacy. Graf charts a queer neurodivergent poetics of survival and desire, refusing linear healing or palatable catharsis. Instead, the collection dwells in contradiction—lush, unflinching, and fiercely intelligent. 
 
PRAISE for Conscious Tongues:
Elenia Graf’s debut collection is a beautiful, sinewy work. Visceral and intimate, the reader finds themselves in the mouth of each poem and is thankful for it. Elenia’s command of imagery and narrative makes Conscious Tongues a cohesive and compelling read.
— Ollie O'Neill
 
ABOUT Elenia Graf:
Elenia Graf is a lesbian writer with autism. She grew up in Germany and now lives in the North of England where she graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Manchester in 2020. She was born with glass bones and paper skin, a fragile scaffolding for heavy words.