Author: Minden, Joseph
Poetry
Published on 27 November 2025 by CARCANET PRESS LTD (Carcanet Poetry) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 118 pages
215 x 135 x 15 | 146g
Answerlands is the place children go in their minds when looking for a correct answer without really thinking. It is also a fairy-tale world of quest, resolution and dissolution, glimpsed in a teacher's dream. And it is nightmare country, disfigured by fear and systemic violence.
Joe Minden’s second collection, Answerlands, explores the curiosity-destroying, harmful potential of school even as it celebrates the erring minds of teacher and student, which make encounter possible.