Lotte Brown - Peach Boat Neck (Wry N.23)

Lotte Brown - Peach Boat Neck (Wry N.23) 2026

“Peach Boat Neck” is the second collection of poems from Belgian born poet, Lotte Brown. A largely quiet, thoughtful work that deals with perception and listening, and which continually mediates the gap between the interior and exterior work of the business of the mind. Thought running into speech, scenes domestic and pastoral (or at the least quotidian), which nevertheless glance into fleeting instances of contemporary dread. Making strange, and the act of knowing oneself through gentle unease.

"The man fell out of the bed and / into the trees / There were warblers in the / ramble / the crocodiles in the the / marigolds / Thick pus on the warm skin / Just thinking about the dead / she said aloud"

Lotte Brown (Belgium/NY) grew up in Dutch, but poems tend to arrive in English. Work has appeared in Luigi Ten Co, The Los Angeles Review, De Gids, Flemish Review de la Poëzie, Poëziekrant, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Five Poems This Morning, was made at the Poetry State Forest in summer 2025. Together with Una Hamilton Helle, she explores the arboreal path of black metal in Becoming the Forest. With Levi Lanser (formerly of Voice Actor), she makes sound works as salmonclogs. Their album “windowsill” incorporates fragments of several poems found in “Peach Boat Neck”. It can be heard at Bandcamp.

Between poems, Lotte works as an independent researcher, interviewer, and eavesdropper.

32 Pages / 8.5x11” / Saddle Stich Binding / Cardstock Covers / First edition of 100 copies / Cover art x Levi Lanser & Lotte Brown / Layout x Wry / Printed in Colorado