FETCH YOUR MOTHER’S HEART by
Lisa Luxx
lisa luxx’s debut poetry collection is an examination of the tender violence that pools in all our states of wanting; from our intimacies to our uprisings. It searches the grief of our longing, from the eyes of displacement; carrying her experience in foster care, adoption, and as a mixed-heritage daughter of the Arab diaspora.
“Vigorously intellectual and politically febrile”
— Poetry Review
“tender, political, simultaneously exuberant and mournful, and lovingly populated with family of every definition.”
— Safia Elhillo, award-winning author
lisa minerva luxx is a poet, playwright, essayist and political activist of British Syrian heritage.
Their work is broadcast on Channel 4, BBC Radio 4 and TEDx. Their poetry and essays are published worldwide, in anthologies and literary journals including by Penguin Books and New England Review.
As playwright and director they are behind the following theatre shows: Eating the Copple Apple, what the dog said to the harvest and The Moon is Listening from Dawn til Dusk.
In 2024, their short story collection Sun Son will be released by Comma Press.
luxx guest lectures on revolutionary poetics and queer theory, and works as a lyricist with LA-based Maison Arts. They are also a long-time transnational community organiser, having co-founded both eLaa Beirut and Nehna Hone. They believe in mutual aid and direct action as means of liberation.
Their name is decapitalised intentionally, to push back against the grammatology of the body politic; acknowledging that the colonial dominant literacy system is a way to force consent of the constitution onto policed populations. All marketing and publishing matter should follow suit.
“Her poems are sensitive and revolutionary – always kind, always fierce.”
— Dazed Magazine