Overview

The Indigo Hours by Maria Sledmere is an immersive, radiant text that moves between autofiction, essay, and poetic prose to document the textures of contemporary longing. Centred around a seasonal arc and filtered through the ambient melancholia of late capitalism, the work refracts emotional experience through media, memory, pop culture, and shifting landscapes-from Berlin pools to prairie towns, from night buses to art galleries. Sledmere's sentences are lush, recursive, and sensorily attuned, sustaining a rhythmic, diaristic lyricism that continually folds the personal into the atmospheric. What emerges is a powerful reckoning with intimacy, grief, and temporality at the edges of digital and embodied life.

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The Indigo Hours' lyrical prose, daubed from a free-associating palette of sensory psychedelia, becomes a portal into a 'blossomy blossomy realm of the possible, ' where sadness is a sexuality, jealousies cause for celebration, and love a drunken texture. Painterly, tender, and spatially generous, this affecting novella rewards re-reading, like a magic eye that reveals a new image, and perhaps new self, with every glance. - Poppy Cockburn The Indigo Hours is watery fortification. Beneath li'l triads of asterisk constellations, Maria Sledmere tells a post-Romantic tale of moonlit precarity and passion among pools & thunderstorms & prairies & airports, where feeling wretched wandering midnight miles is a complex freedom, as exposure on cobalt-lit webcams, dozing/dosing to dub deep trap techno, bruises so Blühen. Yet under cosmic circumstances that augur heartbreak, Maria gifts us the deep assurance of ancient-blue auras and a languageful love pulsing constant. For insomniacs-or-otherwise against analgesia's '""who cares""', a most vital and tender-prone tonic. - Amy Grandvoinet

Author Information

Maria Sledmere is a poet, editor and scholar living in Glasgow. Her most recent publications are Languishing, cute - with Ian Macartney (Tapsalteerie, 2025), Midsummer Song (Tenement Press, 2024) and Cinders (Krupskaya, 2024). She is senior lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, managing editor of SPAM Press and one half of the performance duo Project Somnolence.

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