30 Numbered/signed copies

£15 plus shipping

14 cards housed in a custom card mini-folder with inner wrapper and wraparound band: ten 'nature cards', plus title card, limitation, extract and new prose piece. Format, approx. 4”/100mm wide, 5”/125mm tall. Acid-free stock throughout; foil embossed front cover artwork and wraparound band.

Signed & numbered by Rebecca Gransden

Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group

EARLY PRAISE:

‘Linguistically inventive, alert in every sense, and propelled with such narrative force that hairs burn on the unsuspecting reader’s neck. A classic end-game pilgrimage under a black sun across a spoiled landscape, waiting to be absorbed once again into the marginless sea. The work of a poet in the sway of place, at whatever cost to herself. And to our fragile psyches.’
— Iain Sinclair is the author of Lights Out for the Territory (1997); Rodinsky’s Room (1999); London Orbital (2002); Edge of the Orison (2005), a reconstruction of the poet John Clare’s walk from Epping Forest to Helpston; and London Overground (2015). His novels include Downriver (1991); Landor’s Tower (2001); Dining on Stones (2004); and Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire (2009), which was shortlisted for the 2010 Ondaatje Prize. Iain Sinclair lives in Hackney, East London.


‘All narration is in monosyllables. Each word. This singularity chops into stylistic properties: it empowers the verb in each terse sentence; it deflowers Latinate diction in favor of consonant-tough Germanic; it creates its own vocabulary (kind of like Anthony Burgess’ Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange); and it achieves a stasis of hard horror-prose. A verbal aphasia. A stuckness, which is the post-apocalyptic wasteland that traps the protagonist. Gransden’s freakoid book suggests Samuel Beckett plays which are all social and psychic paralysis, where all directions are a nightmare circularity.’
— Jack Skelley is the author of the novels The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (Semiotext(e), 2023) and Myth Lab: Theories of Plastic Love (Far West Press, 2024). Other books include Interstellar Theme Park: New and Selected Writing (BlazeVOX, 2022). His psychedelic surf band Lawndale released two albums on SST Records.

"Truly outstanding stuff – come in buy a copy go read it sitting on a bale of hay in the exact solar middle of Norfolk’s nowhere for the full mental excursion it richly deserves. You may never come back."
—The Book Hive

REVIEWS:

"A delirious, occasionally nightmarish, vision of a land stripped of cohesion, slowly degenerating, reducing itself to a primordial state . . . I adored this book to the point that I'm certain I'll revisit this decaying world again soon."
—Wyrd Britain

"Rebecca Gransden offers a decidedly English take on the post-apocalyptic trope in Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group filled with riddles which, as the title indicates, unfold in stark and visual present tense . . . a far more twisted version of W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, filled with poetic horror akin to the work of Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen and Robert Aickman. However, Gransden sinks deeper into the unconscious English landscape and finds something far more troubling . . ."
—Matthew Kinlin
https://www.erratumpress.com/england-reversed

"A stylistic trample along the waste land, a pilgrimage that is felt with every word, every sentence, every delicately placed piece of punctuation. It is a death chant, with unknown lands and consequences."
—Black Flowers Journal

Jame de Llis aural review
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/hermitix/episodes/Figures-Crossing-the-Field-Towards-the-Group-by-Rebecca-Gransden-Book-Review-e36nv83
—Hermitix

"Folk horror meets sci-fi . . . Gransden’s language is highly original – assured, forceful and inventive."
—The Brazen Head

Rebecca Gransden has always lived by the sea. She publishes her own prose and occasional ‘lost’ works via her Cardboard Wall Empire imprint. Tangerine Press published Ms Gransden’s Analoger +1 in 2018.

Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group was first published via the author’s own imprint in 2023. This new Tangerine Press edition is faithful to that original vision.