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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 VMI BETSY WARLAND BETWEEN GENRES AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 ELGIN AWARD
Poems written by Cyborgs in the future—this collection melds sci-fi and poetry, human and machine.
The Cyborg Anthology takes place in a future where there was a thriving world of Robots and Cyborgs living peacefully beside Humans, but a disaster destroyed all Robot and most Cyborg life.
The book is organized like a typical anthology of literature, split into sections that include a biography of each poet and a sample of their poetry. It covers early Cyborg poetry, political, celebrity, and pop culture poets, and ends with the next generation of Cyborg poets.
The narrative takes place in the time after a cataclysmic event, and the collection wrestles with this loss. Through the lives of the poets, the book chronicles the history of personhood for technological beings, their struggle for liberation, and demonstrates different ways a person can be Cyborg. The poems and biographies together tell the story of a complex and enthralling world-to-come, exploring topics that are important in the future, and also urgent right now.
"Lindsay B-e's book The Cyborg Anthology is vast in its ambitions, a polyvocal text that speculates into existence a whole population of poets, and writes their verse as it evolves through the world the author has created."—Wayde Compton
"With mordant wit and a playful satiric touch, these Cyborg poems showcase a dazzling range of poetic forms and ideas: imaginative and charmingly subversive. Move over Norton Anthology of Poetry, there's a new force in town, and they are a delight."—Renee Sarojini Saklikar
"The premise of this collection alone is fabulous. The poems are potent and powerful. With echoes of Le Guin, Brunner and Monáe, Lindsay B-e's debut is layered and smart, provocative, and deeply satisfying. I was moved and fascinated. Speculative poetry at its best."—Hiromi Goto
"B-e subverts the oft-central question of speculative works: what does it mean to be human? The collection deftly subverts this question—it does not matter what it means to be human, and in fact, it matters quite a bit more to ponder what it means to be sapient."—Eliot Gilbert, Arc Poetry Magazine
"It is rather difficult to begin speaking about the full extent of socio-political relevance in Lindsay B-e's brilliant, multi-faceted, and incisive speculative poetry book The Cyborg Anthology. It speaks volumes to our relationships to the ever-elusive body; our perception of what constitutes a mind; our indoctrination into gender norms; our capacity to create beauty out of intergenerational trauma; the incredible power of art and poetry in politics; the ever-evolving machinery of capitalism that creates new venues for expression in its endless fundamental contradictions; and last of all, how we as a society treat canonical art, what we take away from it, and how we speak to it."—Khashayar Mohammadi, The Ampersand Review
, VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres AwardLindsay B-e is a writer and filmmaker from Clavet, SK, currently living in Toronto. They have a BA in English, a BFA in Filmmaking, a Certificate in Poetry from The Writer's Studio at SFU, and are completing a Novel-Writing Certificate from U of T Continuing Studies. Their writing has appeared in Poetry Is Dead, the League of Canadian Poets' Poetry Pause, Geez Magazine, Peach Mag, emerge: The Writer's Studio Anthology, and a chapbook from bird, buried press. Lindsay is married with two kids, two dogs, and two cats. They can be found online at biseenscene.com.