Wroote dwells in the intricacies of connection. Its poetry is shapeshifting, with letters continually falling apart from the roots that should bind them.

The collection navigates family in time, memory, and writing. By pressing the limits of language, it lingers in the spaces between, namely, what draws us apart, or what brings us ever closer.

Sam Rye’s work includes Skeleton Reservoir Function (death of workers whilst building skyscrapers, 2026), a collection which uses a restrained approach to language to explore the body and what it holds against itself, and work published in Anthropocene, Still Point, and Ambient Receiver.

“What emerges from the language in Wroote feels inevitable. In the same way there is an inability to recover the past, there is also an inability to avoid the future.

Perhaps what the book means to say is that between these two aspects of the same problem, which is time, there is the brief possibility of understanding the trajectory of our lives and those we share it with.”

Read more about Wroote’s approach to language and its inspirations in a conversation between poet and publisher on Substack.

Softcover, 44 pages, numbered edition of 25, 2026