Delighted to announce my new poetry collection ‘This Is How I Fight’ from Nine Arches Press.
The Observer Poetry Book of the Month, June 2025
Praise for This Is How I Fight:
‘Rosie Garland has a vast and playful imagination, her new collection a shadowed labyrinth of obsidian mirrors, quantum physics and Whack-a-Mole. Watch out: behind the vampires and verve there prowls a relentless compassion that may seize you at any moment and lift you to the stars.’ – John McCullough
‘A galloping collection that looks beneath the skin of a woman to the multitudes inside – galaxies, creatures, queens, ghosts, little lost girls and sheer fire – all itching and roaring to be seen.’ – Caroline Bird
‘Breathless audacity gallops in these poems; their hearts are made of glowing, animate matter. Nothing could be more important than this, in a time when we most need to see proof of our love: Rosie Garland’s This Is How I Fight supplies it, in wonder and spectacle, in jagged defiance and binary deconstructions that spark their own necessary fires. How ferociously grateful I am that these poems exist; how urgently we in the world require them for our shared survival.’ – Shivanee Ramlochan
https://www.ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/this-is-how-i-fight