Haunted by the looming shadows of our compounding crises, Beautiful Unknown Future reflects with candour and wit on the precarity we share with the nonhuman world. Written while Hubbard’s children were young, these poems hold space for messy feelings about motherhood and care, the climate crisis, family ghosts, and office dynamics. Refusing false optimism, Beautiful Unknown Future layers the chaos of domestic life with the detachment of the corporate environment to examine the joys and complexities of these competing spaces, looking critically to a future centred around tenderness, resilience, and love.