One To Many And Other Experiments

Description

One to Many delves into relationships and their beginnings, middles and ends; how one person relates to another or to many others in circles of intimacy and exclusion.

An obsession with an internet stranger or with the one who got away. Asserting ownership over a lover or watching, helpless, as they recede on a mysterious tide. Relationships that stagnate or explode, that fail to launch or simmer with jealousy, desire or unrequited longing. Workplace and family skeletons. Explorations of artificial procreation and motherhood.

Prose, poetry and translation hybridise at unexpected intersections and dance in surreal meta-landscapes.

Cover art Mallory Morrison

Awards

Winner of the ATB | ITK 2023 award for a hybrid collection. 

Reviews

Addictive. The best kind of experiment; an ambitiously hybrid and surreal work – Jen Calleja, author of Vehicle and I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For

Fiction at its most inventive – Ellie Kivinen, Writers’ Café Auckland

Wilson merges original work with translations, poetry with prose, social realism with science fiction and futuristic narratives. This collection showcases the strange and beautiful things that can happen when genre boundaries are crossed and narrative conventions are pushed to their limits. Familiar becomes unfamiliar; ordinary activities take on extraordinary or even terrifying qualities. The biological realities of parenthood are examined from many angles: at times poignant, at other times deeply creepy. There is an unrelenting interrogation of stories, of language itself, and of human relationships. This is a wide-ranging and consistently fascinating work. – Airini Beautrais, author of Bug Week & Other Stories and The Beautiful Afternoon

An arresting, exhilarating, unstable bricolage – sometimes dystopic, sometimes chick lit-ish, sometimes futuristic, sometimes topically issue-driven and sometimes socially realistic: its deft zigzagging between genres offers true hybridity – David Eggleton & Harry Ricketts, At the Bay | I te Kokoru competition convenors

Author description

Born and raised in Kirikiriroa, Sharni Wilson is an award-winning writer of fiction and a Japanese-to-English literary translator. She is the translator of Swan Knight by Fumio Takano (Luna Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Landfall, World Literature Today and the Malahat Review, among others. One to Many and other experiments is her first book.