20 March marks the Spring Equinox, when day and night are in equilibrium: a time to celebrate the shifting balance of light and dark. During this time of reflection and renewal, we bring you our 2025 publishing: featuring writing from Anne Carson, Shulamith Firestone, Ursula K. Le Guin, Trinh T. Minh-ha, IONE, and more.
All our Spring and Summer books are available to pre-order with 10% off: use the code SPRINGPREORDER at check-out (expires 20 April - terms and conditions at the end of this post).
Publishing this Spring and Summer | available for pre-order
Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry | publishing 20 March. Order now.
Edited by Sarah Shin and Rebecca Tamás. Introduced by So Mayer. Afterword by Sarah Shin.
In a fully-expanded, beautifully-designed new edition, Spells brings together over forty contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet the transformative power of the occult. These poems unmake the world around them, so that it might be remade anew. Contributors include Bhanu Kapil, Amy Key, Daisy Lafarge, Precious Okoyomon, Nisha Ramayya, Tai Shani, Rebecca Tamás, and more. See the full list here.
The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson | publishing 14 April. Pre-order now.
Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes all fall into this category. From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Carson invites us to listen again, and in doing so to reimagine our conceptions of human order, virtue and selfhood. Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.
Airless Spaces by Shulamith Firestone | publishing 28 April. Pre-order now.
With an accompanying Reader featuring contributions by Laya Firestone Seghi, Lourdes Cintron, Susan Faludi, Chris Kraus, Lola Olufemi and Hannah Proctor.
Shulamith Firestone’s visionary first book The Dialectic of Sex dared to look at how feminism could shape the future. Finding herself drifting into a new ‘airless space’ after her experience of New York City radical feminist groups, Firestone wrote her first work of fiction. Airless Spaces portrays the psychic suffering, bureaucratized poverty and small crises of everyday life. In a series of vignettes about institutions and identity, Airless Spaces follows characters in psychiatric wards and out in the streets of New York City to move beyond the spectacular and frightening surfaces of institutional spaces to record acts of cruelty and kindness.
States of the Body Produced by Love by Nisha Ramayya | publishing 20 June. Pre-order now.
A modern mystical journey through love – a many-headed snake twisting through devotion, sacrifice and the dream of returning home. In her visionary debut, Nisha Ramayya conjures an opalescent world by way of Tantric ritual and myth. States of the Body Produced By Love weaves essays, poetry and images together to offer fierce meditations on diasporic identity, language and resistance.
From grief to bliss, this book explores the many states of the body seized by love in an incantation that never leaves its hold. Now publishing in a fully-expanded, beautifully-designed new edition.
Grandma’s Story by Trinh T. Minh-ha | publishing 20 June. Pre-order now.
In contrast to the idea that a story is ‘just a story’, pioneering postcolonial feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha recodes ideas about truth and fantasy to tell a different story about power, civilisation, history, medicine and magic. Grandma’s Story shows how creative speech is connected to women’s powers of enchantment, drawing upon and speaking with storytellers including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Clarice Lispector, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko and Zora Neale Hurston – all who may be known as ‘she who breaks open the spell’.
The story as a cure and a protection is at once musical, historical, poetical, ethical, educational, magical, and religious.
Quantum Dreaming by IONE | publishing 20 June. Pre-order now.
IONE has been dedicated to facilitating dreams for over fifty years, building upon ancient and modern dream practices to awaken the deep seeds of creativity located within them. Sharing this intimate part of our being, she believes, can be the start of new ways of being with each other.
IONE’s exploration of the reality of the dream and the dream of reality over many decades has led her to appreciating the quantum nature of dreaming. Quantum Dreaming takes a non-linear journey through IONE’s memories; the dreams of her friends and community members; scientific research into neuroscience, cosmology and physics; and historical dream traditions from around the world, including The Dreaming of Australian Aboriginal culture, ancient Chinese Taoist philosophy and Haudenosaunee Dream Festivals. Like Deep Listening, Quantum Dreaming aims to create a radical shift in collective consciousness, across all states of dream and waking.
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So Far, So Good by Ursula K. Le Guin | publishing in September 2025
Ursula K. Le Guin began writing as a poet, before writing across genres for her entire life. This elegiac collection of poems, completed shortly before her death in 2018, reflects on the soul, mortality and the mysteries beyond. Weaving together rich sounds, echoes of myth and her vivid sense of our place in the natural world, So Far, So Good walks between the knowable and the unknown with characteristic daring.
The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin by Ursula K. Le Guin | publishing in October 2025
Co-published by Spiral House and AA Publications to coincide with an exhibition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s maps at the Architectural Association, London, opening on 10 October 2025.
When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new novel, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World gathers writing from a variety of perspectives to enquire into the relationship between the world and its representation through creative dialogue with her fictions. Her maps offer starting points to reflect on the roles of architecture and placemaking in the creative process, worldbuilding, and paradigms of knowledge, exemplified by the map’s edges and how a map is made. Through poems, stories, essays and theory, The Word for World reimagines her maps as carrying technologies of memory.
A Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays by M. NourbeSe Philip | publishing in October 2025
A Genealogy of Resistance is the most personal and probing collection of essays by NourbeSe Philip, Trinidadian-Canadian author of Zong!, a book-length poem on the Zong slave massacre of 1781, and recipient of the 2024 Windham-Campbell prize for literature. In A Genealogy of Resistance, Philip considers her poetic practice, her relationship to language, place and history and the complications of living with a past that refuses to be silenced. In language of a unique intensity and brilliance, she provokes us to think about the ways in which history is created and re-created. The voices that populate her essays and poetry – figures from the past and from the African diaspora, often unnamed but not forgotten – demand our attention and ask us to rethink what we think we know about race, literature and history.
Discount code terms and conditions:
- Using the code SPRINGPREORDER at checkout will apply a 10% discount to our Spring and Summer publishing (featured above). It is valid for use only on silverpress.org
- We cannot take pre-orders on our Autumn publishing: sign up to our mailing list to hear about upcoming pre-order offers.
- The code expires on April 20th, 2025.
- Publication dates for each title are listed above and will be mailed out as they publish.
- The code cannot be combined with other discounts.
- We are currently unable to ship to customers in the EU - apologies! We are working to resolve this.