PIVOT is an experimental, book-length poem exploring the profound act of ‘turning’, with the Haitian Revolution as its cornerstone. It moves beyond historical narrative, scrutinising this epochal event through its critical junctures of rupture and radical reorientation. Using minimalist abstractions of language, Mason Jordan delves into the visceral and conceptual mechanics of turning: a turning away from colonial subjugation, and a turning towards new vocabularies of freedom. PIVOT examines international revolt, revolutionary fervour, and relation in the aftermath of transatlantic enslavement and European colonialism.