Poetry. In this brilliant meditation on urban space and our place(s) within it, Samantha Giles confronts head on the question of 'what is to be done?" "Start with a circle or something like it. Fear maybe. Circle as a symbol for the whole." Through a shifting, multilayered account structured around the 148 murders that occurred in Oakland in 2006, Giles takes us deep into the core of a set of urban contradictions and the subjectivities produced by them and begins the necessary work of asking where we might start to find a somewhere else. "A gall is a symbol. A tricky agreement with allegory. The gall operates as a symbol to the plant. Is this text a plant or a gall?"

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Literature & Fiction

Giles, Samantha

Poetry

Displaced Press

Poetry. "Under current conditions of militarization and state sponsored torture, DEADFALLS &amp; SNARES stands among our moment's bravest and most necessary works of poetry. Beyond comfortable notions of complicity and witness, Samantha Giles's writing transforms our desire to see into an ability to parse—like a sentient grammarian—the relations between subject and object, torturer and tortured, as they fuse with our interiors. In other words, 'it's us in / what already happened / in the way that it shifts / in its visibility / it's us.' Reading these poems while guided by conventions of collective spectatorship, we catch ourselves perversely trying to refamiliarize what Giles has so successfully defamiliarized, and in doing so, the double bind of our ethical conundrum becomes acutely perceptible."—Rob Halpern

deadfalls & snares

Futurepoem Books

Rosemary and the Witches of Pendle Hill is the debut children's novel from Emmerdale actor Samantha Giles. My Mum is a witch. I know this to be a fact because: a) She has a broomstick by the front door. b) She does spells sometimes. c) There are 4 other witches who live with us, that only me, Mum and Lois see. We don't really question their comings and goings. It was just normal to us until THINGS STARTED HAPPENING... Rosemary's cosy world is crumbling around her. Her Mum has finally landed an acting job and spends all her time with her slimy co-star; her Dad always seems to have a dark cloud hanging around him; her little sister, Lois, won't stop farting; and, oh yes, Phyllis, one of the four witches they share their house with, has disappeared through the wall. Meanwhile a group who call themselves the No-Laws are wreaking havoc across the country, and why does everyone keep whispering about the Pendle Witches of 1612? With the help of her windy sister and Adi, her maths-genius best friend, Rosemary sets off on a hazardous, magical journey. But can they solve the mystery of Phyllis' disappearance and stop the No-Laws before Rosemary's family is fractured for good?

Rosemary and the Witches of Pendle Hill

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Agora Books

Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Women's Studies. TOTAL RECALL is, at its root, a memoir about memory. Yet in this chronology by Samantha Giles, the roots twist, double over and fold back on themselves in a narrative fractured by sexual, physical and emotional trauma. Part essay part poem, in this perseveration on how the body holds and discards the banality and sustainability of trauma, Giles questions how to know what you know when everything including your brain conspires to doubt you. "A book that so powerfully and strangely melds autobiography, poetry, ethnography, philosophical inquiry, and testimony: that would have been enough. But on top of that, Samantha Giles manages to make TOTAL RECALL a page-turner, a psychological thriller (really!) whose tension is constructed adroitly and painfully from what Georges Perec, in W: Or the Memory of Childhood, refers to as 'gaps, lapses, doubts, guesses and meagre anecdotes.' Like Perec, Giles constructs a childhood narrative by fusing memoiristic writing with otherworldly narratives, and the 'truth' emerges from the intermingling of these stories, from the silences that form between them. I could go on and on about how the book is written and the multiple forms it takes. Yet more significant than questions of form is the book's content, which is heartbreaking, captivating, and terrifying, both for the traumas it reveals, the pathologies that manipulate and deny the traumas, and the pseudo-science of the real-life False Memory Syndrome Foundation--all presented in a voice and frame that doesn't let us off the hook. There's no self-indulgence here, no evocations of empathy or sentiment. There is, rather, brutality, affliction, and an indefinable presence in its presentation. I think this book is extraordinary."--Daniel Borzutsky

Total Recall

Krupskaya

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deadfalls & snares

Rosemary and the Witches of Pendle Hill

Total Recall