Adolescent yearbooks are reflections on the past year – from new friends, crushes and romances, to those lost over time.

When a bond is severed, we’re encouraged to move on, preserve our dignity, and pretend the relationship never existed. This unrealistic belief is a symptom of a modern anomie that can leave us longing for answers we never receive.

Yearbook Signing challenges this by chronicling relationships and entanglements – recognising the lasting impact that humans have on one another, and the persistence of memory.

“Leatrice’s Yearbook Signing insists we feel again the way we felt when we were young, and shows us how. Refusing the comforts of distance and cynicism, these frank, yearning, open-hearted poems dare to take seriously the intense early relationships we’re expected to outgrow and forget.”

—Ali Lewis, author of Absence