The Martian's Regress
by J. O. Morgan
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Pub Date 5 Mar 2020 | Archive Date 28 May 2020
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Jonathan Cape
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Description
From the winner of the Costa Poetry Award
A lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it. During this journey back to the now-broken and long-abandoned mother planet, the martian begins to consider his own uncertain origins, and his own future.
Cut off from his people, the martian's story is that of the individual: his duty at odds with his desire; the race of which he’s still a part playing always on his mind, as well as the race that once was. This is the story of what life becomes when stripped of all that makes it worth living – of what humans become when they lose their humanity.
The Martian's Regress is a brilliant, provocative, often darkly comic work that explores what a fragile environment eventually makes of those who persist in tampering with it.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781787332140 |
| PRICE | £10.00 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 88 |
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Featured Reviews
Siobhan D, Reviewer
The Martian's Regress is a book of poetry about a single Martian who returns to Earth, focusing on origin stories, future, and the environment. It is split into separate short poems, but it is also a single work exploring the martian's present life and the previous history of his people. This is poetry that tells stories and reflects on the stories told by others, and on how you keep going when alone. The martian's exploration of the now broken and empty Earth is a highlight, as various poems/sections consider the reality of the emptiness.
There are obvious modern themes, from the environmentalism and look at the future of the planet, to the currently weirdly relevant look at being isolated, and the collection has an eerie sense at times, as if you're also with the Martian. At the same time, it can be light hearted, and also shows how poetry and science fiction can come together in interesting ways to create certain atmospheres. It is a book to read all at once, rather than taking in separate poems, to fully immerse in the story and setting.
