Lucy Ives Books in Order

This extended poem examines writing through acts of recollection, revision and erasure. Repeated beginnings expose the uncertainty behind making meaning, asking how a life can be recorded when memory, language and the stories we tell keep changing.

Young girls come of age in the closing years of the twentieth century, drawn into friendship and credit-card fraud. Their experiments with identity and risk expose the uneasy relationship between adolescent innocence and the consumer culture surrounding them.

Written across a decade, these poems trace a writer's changing understanding of poetry and experience. Dreams, perceptions and recollections blur together as Ives questions how language constructs a world while also helping us live within it.

Poems, a novella and an essay form an interconnected exploration of repetition, transformation and description. Ives shifts among literary forms to consider how language represents time and experience, resisting the idea of a single stable account.

Fragments of dreams, conversations, lists and poems reveal a writer thinking through art and everyday experience. This collection turns notebooks and private observations into an exploration of creative practice, examining how ideas become language and how imagination reshapes perception.

A museum curator's disastrous week includes a missing colleague, a collapsing romance and an intrusive ex-husband. The discovery of a nineteenth-century map sends Stella into an investigation linking utopian ambitions, artworks and secrets within the institution she knows.

Charismatic Troy Loudermilk enters a prestigious creative-writing programme celebrated for poems he has never written. Accompanied by his unassuming friend Harry, he exposes the vanities and assumptions surrounding literary talent, authorship and the institutions that reward them.

Ordinary encounters veer into the supernatural in stories of deceit, desire and unstable realities. Women answer advertisements, meet demons, cross through time and confront the strange structures beneath the narratives they use to explain their lives.

Locked out of her apartment after her marriage breaks down, graduate student Erin takes refuge in a university library. The manuscripts she carries become pathways through personal heartbreak, buried histories and the connections needed to make sense of her life.

Five linked essays weave personal memories with research into American history and cultural fantasy. Moving through family records, childhood obsessions and motherhood, Ives examines how hidden histories shape identity and how retelling them can open new possibilities.