Beautiful Unknown Future fires up the possibilities of labour, memory, and doubt amid the shifting realities of living, working, and mothering in times of increasing uncertainty. The poems create space for messy feelings surrounding motherhood and care, the climate crisis, family ghosts, and office life. Beautiful Unknown Future moves with candor and wit to offer timely insights into the complicated reality of living and thriving amid the persistent uneasiness of the present.

Written while Hubbard’s children were young, Beautiful Unknown Future employs a delicate humour that layers the chaos of domestic life with the detachment of the corporate world to examine the joys and complexities of these competing spaces. Above all, the book seeks a future centered around tenderness, resilience, and a bit of magic.