Footnotes: What Am I, A Deer? by Polly Barton

Polly Barton selects some tracks from the world of her debut novel, What Am I, a Deer?, with excerpts read by Polly herself. This edition of Footnotes explores the music, fantasies and obsessions that shape the book. Run in collaboration with Fitzcarraldo Editions. Polly Barton is a British writer and Japanese-to-English literary translator. Her books include Fifty Sounds (2021), an exploration of language, identity and longing, and Porn: An Oral History (2023). Her translations include Asako Yuzuki’s Butter and Saou Ichikawa’s Hunchback. What Am I, a Deer? is her debut novel.