Monday 26 July 2021

My Rabbit's Shadow Looks Like a Hand

My Rabbit's Shadow Looks Like a Hand (2021)
Eibonvale Books


An experimental novella utilising many effects, including parallel columns and text grids, stories within stories and more, all combined into a unique and cohesive whole.

The novella was partly inspired by Don Marquis and his 'Archy and Mehitabel' sequence of poems. In this novella there are twelve shadow rabbits who create twelve texts (poetry and prose mostly) that are fully contained works but also interact with each other to form a bigger story.

These twelve facets are set in a frame by another story and it turns out that this framing story is also potentially framed in a larger cosmos.

A fantasy, a comedy, a magic realist adventure and an example of OuLiPo writing.