Agate Head / Stone Soup
'A gem of a collection' GUARDIAN
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Agate Head / Stone Soup
Narrated by:
Patricia Lockwood
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Narrated by:
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Patricia Lockwood
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Patricia Lockwood
'I'm always happy to go into her zany vortex' Lorde
'Anything by Patricia Lockwood is guaranteed to make me laugh out loud' Caro Claire Burke, author of Yesteryear
'A modern word witch' New York Times Book Review
The new collection(s) of poetry from Booker Prize finalist and 'voice of a generation' Patricia Lockwood
Many have called Patricia Lockwood a wordsmith, but in the latest iteration of her life, she has become, quite literally, a metalsmith too. Stones, gems, metals, fossils – she forges them into bodies, faces and, with her typical irreverence, vaginas.
In these poems, a robot dog discovers the Lascaux caves in France. Jane Austen shoots a perfect 147. A rock gets a girlfriend. The Pope blesses McLovin (kind of). Lockwood’s most successful work of metal- and wordsmithing yet is her blend of the Internet world with the natural one, as she slips meme references and algospeak into evocations of geological time, explorations of organic bodies, and observations of youth.
Her most personal collection of poetry yet, you may find you understand yourself – and Patricia – more than you’d like to by the end.
'Lookwood has a modern comic sensibility like no one else ... you get swept up in the momentum of her wayward brain' The Times©2026 Patricia Lockwood (P)2026 Penguin Random House USA Audio
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Critic Reviews
[Agate Head / Stone Soup's] vivid attention to the natural world and exuberant imagination make it rewarding ... Lockwood’s signature humor remains intact, surfacing through surprising juxtapositions and lively conversations
A book of beautiful and moving moments
A gem of a collection ... [Lockwood's] return to poetry is a genuine event, and across Agate Head / Stone Soup there are countless moments that remind you that her poetic voice is unique: charming, whimsical, intimate; able to deliver images of great beauty, piercing philosophical insights and glimpses into a creative life behind the public persona. ... Time and again Lockwood leaves you with the distinct impression that she can magically make the profane into the profound, the holy into the hilarious
Interspersed between reflections on millennia-old rock and long-dead poets are distinctly contemporary, quotidian experiences. ... There are repeated images: the beautiful sliced stones, her and Jason cycling on a tandem bicycle, the ghosts of dead poets
You can hear echoes of Plath through Agate Head
She's droll in every medium ... able to afford topics including Syvia Plath, milf culture, geology, AI slop and the Berenstain Bears the same levels of interest and scrutiny ... The act of cutting. The act of looking. The act of seeing. All studded with quartz and limestone and onyx
Turns stone-cutting and medical drama into refreshingly wry verse
Memoir, fiction, poetry, the back of a cereal box - if Patricia Lockwood’s writing it, I’m in ... Her words typically cause my mind to bend, refracted as though through a prism
A poetry collection in two parts, Lockwood’s newest release traces her time as a metalsmith with her signature, memoiristic charm
The collection’s vivid attention to the natural world and exuberant imagination make it rewarding ... Lockwood's signature humour remains intact, surfacing through surprising juxtapositions and lively conversations
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