Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel

"Deep Wheel Orcadia" is a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect, featuring a diverse cast and a parallel translation into English. It explores themes of place, belonging, work, economy, generation, and gender politics with lightness and musicality, showcasing the talent of Harry Josephine Giles, a rising poet from Scotland.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 14 October 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Winner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year, Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.

Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric, and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire – all with the lightness of touch, fluency, and musicality one might expect of one of the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space.

Weight: 386g
Dimension: 153 x 233 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529066609
Edition number: Multilingual ed