A Night in the Country delete One night in the summer

One night in the summer of 2023 when I was developing the last negatives for this project the temperature in my darkroom reached 100 degrees

It does not aim to ‘fix’ this hesitant state or offer solutionist approaches

as well as stars of the showbiz and sports

publisher Art Paper Editions (APE) & the city of Ghent

Text by Ashley Parsons

A Night in the Country delete One night in the summerSelected by Louise Glck as Winner of the 2023 Changes Book Prize, Laura Newberns second collection is a work of burning, restrained urgency that looks at loss, isolation, the passage of timeand what endures despite. Written in a town that was once home to the worlds largest asylum, these poems are studies in the dual nature of that idea: asylum, always both a protection and an exile. The country of these poems is not, or not only, the idyllic backdrop