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The Island is available to buy now! We are so excited. You can order a copy from your local independent bookstore or library, or you can buy it directly through any of the retailers listed here. We have global distribution, so you should be able to get your copy, wherever you are!

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“Witty and self-deprecating and instantly relatable.”
-VALLUM 

Written over the course of two summers following the poet’s 33rd birthday.

 

Longing for an irretrievable beach paradise ✔

Yearning for an abandoned tower to hide in ✔

(Failing to) deal with ageing by building a hot transcendent yoga body ✔

Loving convenience in spite of yourself ✔

A manifesto against self-optimization ✔

Blasé satanism ?

An elegy for desire ✔

A meditation on death ?

A bisexual epic ✔

An unrelenting affirmation that “this world is all there is” ✔

 

Obsession, delusion, solitude, longing. That’s the thing with The Island.

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THE ISLAND, a book-length haiku by Oscar d'Artois
with artwork by Mad Manning

Coming June 4th, 2024

it recedes again

forever moving away

the island of course

is not real, a construct of

imagination

it’s not like i’ve never been

but there’s a difference 

between how i represent 

it in my mind’s eye

& how things actually are

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“A fast life lived in an existential daze with a pop-punk poetic consciousness.”
-DAZED

Praise for Oscar d'Artois

“I loved so many references in The Island. Cold brew, yoga, spritzes, consumer culture, the internet, queerness... So funny and real and sparkly"
- Chloe Caldwell, author of WOMEN

“A book of fantasy built on internet dreams and nostalgia for what never existed: the fantasy of an eternal American youth, the wish that love can save us, the hope that we can practice for death. A re-projection of the images projected on us every day. An affirmation that as misguided as we are, we too deserve poetry.”

- Melissa Broder, author of Death Valley

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Oscar d’Artois is a writer & translator who was born in 1989 in Paris, France. He is also the author of TEEN SURF GOTH (Metatron Press, 2015) and lives mostly out of a suitcase. 

Also coming soon from Shabby Doll House:

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