#ella baxter

[smallwhiterat]

I have two slugs as lips, quandong fruit eyes, a pomelo head. Out of my mouth roll boiled egggs, choko vines, purple yams. Lie at my skeletal feet fetuses, durian, black olives, and persimmons still wet from the tree (2025)

[newvision]

— Ella Baxter, from New Animal

[literateish]

“i want my head to explode and my heart to billow out my neck like a hot air balloon, getting bigger and bigger, until the audience will be forced to cling to me as we take off into the sky. i want to project all the emotions i have across my huge balloon heart. i want people to see my pain and be so alarmed by it that they check books to see whether it’s normal. i want to know if it is actually normal to feel so much and so little. i want people to tell me it’s okay. i want the whole crowd and the entire world to tell me that i’m doing what i should be. that it’s not too much, and that this is as hard as it will be. i want to be told i will survive my own feelings. i want.”

— new animal by ella baxter

[theunbearablelightnessofreading]

New TBR pile! I’ve made it my mission to hit as many bookstores in London as possible, which eventually turned into a book buying spree. No regrets! (Well maybe some regrets… I’m slowly but surely running out of space)

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NEW ANIMAL by ELLA BAXTER

[lazyydaisyyy]

Ella Baxter, New Animal

[bookishyikes]

Book haul from Sydney Writers Festival!! some of these I already owned (illuminae + anything but fine) but I got them signed + got the opportunity to have a chat with the authors!! Also chatted with a couple of authors whose books I didn't get (Kay Kerr + Ella Baxter)

So so thankful that I got to meet them, and for the kind notes they wrote! I loved what they had to share in their various interviews and talks - I cannot wait for next years festival

[amyrose13]

Random Person: It's just an itty bitty spider. It smaller than you!

Percy: Yeah, and so is Ella.

Ella: I will murder both of you in your sleep.