Thrutopoems

Announcing a new poetry collaboration

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Dialect Press is very excited to announce publication of a new collaboration from acclaimed poets Ilse Pedler, Hilary Watson and Alice Willitts. Their collection is inspired by the notion of ‘thrutopia’, a narrative that neither succumbs to the paralysing horror of dystopia nor the disconnected fantasy of utopia. Instead, thrutopias chart a viable path between the two, a route from where we are now to where we need to be. The poets have been working in this space for some time, recently establishing the ground-breaking online journal, Bending the Arc.

This work is both urgent and restorative - deeply attentive to the world in its precarity and insistent about the possibility of healing. Weaving the work of three talented poets together, the polyphony of the collaboration is striking - each voice, while distinct, contributes to a layered kind of perception and experience that resists singularity in favour of a more dynamic and inclusive form of witness. Thrutopoems will be published in Spring 2026.

Find out more about the authors below.