{"product_id":"sleep-gate-by-sylvia-legris","title":"Sleep Gate by Sylvia Legris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished 19 November 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Sleep Gate, Sylvia Legris descends into biological dreaming itself: the sleep beneath sleep, where ‘the dream under the dream \/ is the dream of plants’. Taking up Inger Christensen’s summons to ‘dream our way inward’, and H.D.’s insistence that the dream is ‘no poetic phantasy \/ but a biological reality’, these poems dissolve the waking world into the fabric of sleep, drawing the natural and the built alike into its slow respiration. Animating a whole taxonomy of sleepers – a ruby-throated hummingbird whose dream is a nest ‘hinging on spider silk’, a honeybee with ‘perfect recall of citrus one thousand and fifty-seven flowers ago’, an earthworm fleeing ‘by slow peristaltic wave’ – Legris follows sleep through phylum and season.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSensuous, Latinate and strange, this extraordinary collection captures the disjunctive, jump-cutting logic of dreams, leaping from a time before ‘the clouds are inventoried’ to winter‘s ‘gnashing bruxism’, and assembles the world, as one does on waking, through distortion and towards clarity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58372594794878,"sku":"9781804272770","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1331\/9925\/files\/1791971426.jpg?v=1793619511","url":"https:\/\/www.poetrybooks.co.uk\/products\/sleep-gate-by-sylvia-legris","provider":"The Poetry Book Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}