Natalee Caple Livres

Natalee Caple made quite a splash with her first two books, The Heart is its Own Reason, a short-story collection from Insomniac Press, and The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World, a novel from House of Anansi Press.With A More Tender Ocean Caple turns her hand to poetry, and the results are no less dazzling. The poems were written using a Surrealist technique called automatic writing – a kind of poetic impressionism after speed-reading. The effect is a kind of dreamlike state – everything isn't quite as it should be, as though it had all been seen through the facet of a diamond. The poems are lyrical, erotic, gentle, happy, sad and strangely beautiful.A More Tender Ocean is unusual but immensely moving and compelling, tender but not maudlin. 'What goes on seems ordinary,' writes Caple. Rest assured, it is not.

Exploring the life of a historical literary figure through a feminist lens, this collection blends poetry and biography to reimagine August Strindberg as a woman playwright disguised as a man. The work interweaves prose and poetry from various historical contexts, offering a nuanced portrayal of Strindberg and late 19th-century Europe. It delves into themes of Enlightenment, the tension between religious faith and scientific reasoning, and the complexities of human nature, all presented with a compassionate and artistic touch.