Eva Meijer in conversation with Keith Payne

‘Hinting at the mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate,’ writes critic Rebecca Hussey, ‘The Sea Now is a book on what happens when the delicate balance of nature tips in favor of the sea.’

‘It isn’t just a human story, but one of overfished fishes learning not to be afraid; of shellfishes, birds, rabbits, and ‘sea-being’; of horses discovering that ‘what they mean by freedom is the seaweed that moves inside you’; of whether, like mussels and octopuses, ‘the sea dreams’ … In its regard for other-than-human Earthlings—acknowledging that they exist, that our lives and stories are also theirs, that they engage in a porous exchange—Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence.’ (Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Asymptote.)

Friday 24 April 2026

City Library | 5pm | Free