Shop Talk

Author: Ali Graham

Publisher: Veer Books (2023)

"Ali Graham's Shop Talk is gorgeous sass and lousiness. It mercilessly sifts the world of contracts, symptoms and undercurrent martyrs to dowse a horology of 'girl'hood from its dregs. What does it mean to be epitheted, in a world that turns the lover of skies into its publicist? Shop Talk is a remarkable dash between such unavoidable drops; there are always men, whose addressing our wages may depend on, but in spite of them a 'girl' can always become 'a princely jug of moving air.' This is apophatic glamour as fiercest survival."

—Daisy Lafarge