Geoff Gilbert and Alex Houen's See You Through: A Novel is a formally restless, genre-collapsing hybrid that inhabits the threshold between poetry and fiction. Structured around a shifting dialogue of voices and modes, the book navigates illness, intimacy, war, bureaucracy, and facial recognition technology with a syntax that veers between the lyrical and the analytic, the fragmentary and the fluid. Language becomes a site of both fracture and connection, as the text resists linear narration in favour of a porous, polyphonic architecture. What emerges is a work that holds complexity with conviction: self-aware, searching, and structurally bold.
Geoff Gilbert was born in Dunfermline in West Fife and now lives in France, where he works at the American University of Paris. He teaches, writes, and translates, and is currently completing a book on relations between writing and economics, called For Real.
Alex Houen was born in Oxford, England, grew up in Sydney, Australia, and teaches in Pembroke College and the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. He co-edits with Adam Piette the poetry journal Blackbox Manifold. His research and writing interests include sacrifice, war literature, affects, and poets' novels.