“I read this over three nights and each poem felt like a room I hadn't been in before. Vale writes sleep as a landscape you can walk through, and by the last page I was genuinely reluctant to wake up from it.”
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The Cartography of Sleep
by Imogen Vale
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Step across the threshold of the waking world into landscapes woven from starlight and shadow. These verses chart the phantom geography of our nocturnal lives, illuminating the secret borders we cross when the sun retreats. Prepare to lose yourself in the surreal, hidden cartography of your own subconscious.
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