Lindsey Webb | Plat

Join local poet and finalist for the National Poetry Series Lindsey Webb for a reading and signing of her newest collection, Plat. Webb will be in conversation with poet Jessica Tanck. This in-person event is open to the public and will take place at the bookshop.

Registration is required for this free event. Reserve your spot on Eventbrite here.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order your signed copy of Plat to pick up at the event by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. If you cannot make this event, signed copies of Plat may be ordered from our website. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy from The King's English.

About the book:

Lindsey Webb’s Plat is a haunted, Western elegy which grapples with the suicide of her childhood friend in the context of their Mormon upbringing. In conversation with Joseph Smith’s prophesied but unrealized heavenly city, the Plat of Zion, Webb explores a vexed, disorienting space. Her prose poems lead the reader through an unearthly garden and into a house which eludes laws of time or space, unearthing the porous border between the living and the dead.

Plat hearkens to Leonora Carrington, Lyn Hejinian, and Willa Cather, with ecstatic and painterly language that broods over gender, death, and memory like a thundercloud. As ecological and built structures feverishly crumble, Webb maps the grief of a yet-unachieved utopias in the wake of personal loss. She considers how dreams for our imagined worlds and selves may survive.

Host or Publisher The King's English Bookshop