Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards 2018
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2019
In this intimate and vital debut,Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay shame.
Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use,Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents,the violence our scars betray,forgotten forebears and histories.
The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness,too,as in a sequence re-imagining the love poetry of Verlaine.
The collection crescendos to Scott's tour de force,Oh My Soho!,where a night stroll under the street lamps of Soho Square becomes a search for true lineage,a reclamation of stolen ancestors,hope for healing,and,above all,the finding of our truest selves.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571338917Number of pages: 88Weight: 130 gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 7 mmEdition: Main
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