Thursday 4 June
6:30-9pm
Join us for an evening of readings celebrating the paperback launch of our 2025 Book of the Year: Life Cycle of a Moth by Rowe Irvin!
Readings by:
Rowe Irvin
Phoenix Yemi
Lu Rose Cunningham
& Music by:
Nick Granata
Niandra
About Life Cycle of a Moth:
Maya and Daughter live in complete isolation in a secluded woodland, their days aligned with the light and changing seasons, a complex pattern of routine and ritual. Daughter has never questioned the life her mother has chosen for them; the life that has meant she’s never met another soul, or known anywhere except their forest home.
But one day, when Daughter is almost sixteen, a red-haired stranger steps into the confines of their territory. Where there was always two, suddenly there are three – and the carefully constructed world that Maya has built to keep her daughter safe may not survive it.
Urgent, haunting and thrillingly alive, Life Cycle of a Moth explores both the tenderness and ferocity of maternal love, asking what we might find ourselves capable of – and willing to sacrifice – in order to shelter those we hold dear.
Alongside the paperback edition of Life Cycle of a Moth, we will be selling limited edition risograph posters designed by Rowe Irvin and printed at Burley Fisher Community Press.