Protected: 𝔓𝔯𝔢-𝔒𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔯 ✻ Lateral Sway
Hannah Karpinski
05/16/2026
Bundle includes all Spring 2026 releases (Lateral Sway, Wavering Futures, all the time)
BOOK DETAILS
Poetry
Paperback
Cover Art: Wera Grzes
XXÂ pages
ISBN 9781988355788
Spring 2026
when you are the first sound of morning
your words ocean & I am weightless
when you look at me with your whole face
my shadow falls behind me
Moving through queer intimacy, memory, and displacement, the poems in this collection trace what it means to be pulled off-course—towards others, towards language, towards fleeting forms of belonging. Fragmentary and tender, Lateral Sway offers an account of how connections survive across bodies, borders, and time.
Advance Praise
“Dear Reader, you have in your hands a gorgeous tumult of verse. It’s a tonic. A balm. A much-needed reprieve from all the wrong kinds of chaos.”
—Sina Queyras
author of My Ariel
“Lateral Sway explores the lyrical intricacies of human/girl relation and the beauty of the complexities that emerge. Seeking to make the lives of queer others in Poland visible alongside hers, Karpinski in the end is permitted to share only her own desires, leaving open the search for answers: how can we make space for others, when their stories are not ours to tell?”
—Erin Moure
author of Furious + winner of the Governor General’s Award in poetry
Hannah Karpinski
Hannah Karpinski is a lesbian Canadian poet from Tkaronto/Toronto. Diving into intimate personal archives and collective memory, she writes about queer friendship and queer desire. You can find her poems in Commo Mag, Voicemail Poems, Ghost City Press’ My Loves: Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems, and elsewhere. Lateral Sway is her first book.
This book was made possible with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Literary Publishing Projects grant.
