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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