Boy in Various Poses Kathryn Daszkiewicz

Boy in Various Poses Kathryn DaszkiewiczBoy in Various Poses, a debut collection of poems from Lewis Buxton, explores all the different types of boy you can be tender, awful, thoughtful, vulnerable. Here, a maelstrom of mental health, male bodies, and sexuality is laid bare with wit and curiosity, and the complexity and multiplicity of gender itself is revealed. The boy in question is often shapeshifting, slippery, unreliable, close yet never quite in focus, moving too fast to pause and

"Many contemporary poets blow away in the gale of nihil and nonsense that life is becoming

ways of teaching

but few readers will leave this collection without feeling better informed and more curious about their worlds

a lie which enables its creator to tell the truth

The Bramble King is full of darkly resonant tales

That Was the Week That Was and other TV and radio programmes

Here is a collection with its knickers off and on

Knut Odegard

Maurice Harmon’s essay ‘Journey into Poetry’ and reviews of Sydney Bernard Smith

a volume of her selected poems in English translation

The stories range over at most a hundred years

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