New York Ironweed - Paperback

by Amanda Deutch (Author)

new york ironweed was selected for the 2025 Ottoline Prize.

new york ironweed is a field guide unlike any other. An intimate companion to take along with you on walks in New York or anywhere, new york ironweed's poems are energetic supersonic living beings. Intentionally "imperfect," the electric poems invite typographical irregularities, mirroring ecological realities. The hyper-conscious poems emerge from our shared experience of climate and insect crisis, paying care and attention to the plants wildly growing from cracks in concrete. These strange, witchy creatures err without erring as they decompose like plants back into the soil. Deutch's plants-as-poems build new interspecies architectures through their transcendent being.

Author Biography

Amanda Deutch is a poet born and raised in New York City. She is the winner of the 2025 Fence Ottoline Prize for her collection, new york ironweed. Deutch's poetry has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Oversound, The Rumpus, Cimarron Review, and in many other journals and magazines. Deutch is the author of several chapbooks including Bodega Night Pigeon Riot (above/ground press, 2020), and Surf Avenue & 29th Street, Coney Island (Least Weasel Press, 2018). She lives in Brooklyn, where she is the founder of Parachute Literary Arts in Coney Island.