Beautiful Unknown Future - Taryn Hubbard

Beautiful Unknown Future fires up the possibilities of labour, memory, and doubt amid the shifting realities of living, working, and parenting in times of increasing uncertainty. Haunted by the looming shadows of our compounding crises, these poems refuse false optimism, instead reflecting with candour and wit on the precarity we share with the nonhuman world. Written while Hubbard’s children were young, the poems hold space for messy feelings about motherhood and care, the climate crisis, family ghosts, and office dynamics. Beautiful Unknown Future layers the chaos of domestic life with the detachment of the corporate world to examine the joys and complexities of these competing spaces, looking critically to a future centred around tenderness, resilience, and love.