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queer poetry
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Product details
- ISBN 9781915051097
- Weight: 115g
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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An extraordinary and playful debut collection by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, exploring the joy and fluidity of queer love.
An interrogation of the erotic and romantic becomes refracted, as though through a prism, towards beings, lovers, states, objects, landscapes, systems, in K Patrick's ground-breaking debut book of poems. These are notes towards a contemporary queer experience that emerge from the body, dodging and playing with logic to create a brand new poetics. Patrick's subversive and distinct poetic manoeuvres through a marriage and a subsequent divorce, nature writing and 20th Century literary figures with agility, delicacy, candour, and humour.
By turns both innovative and empathetic, Three Births documents the absurdity of obsessive desires, giving room to states of flux and flow in the body, relationships, ecology and place. George Michael, the history of inches, the ache that lives behind a 'rigid seam': a high-wire linguistic utopia is put forward in Patrick's easy-going, cool and ironic tone, which zaps with syntactic-synaptic wildness. Three Births culminates in the subtle but powerful message that we should be able to inhabit the body we want to inhabit and love freely within this.
K Patrick is a writer based in Glasgow. Patrick's work has appeared in journals such as the Poetry Review, Five Dials, The White Review and Granta. In 2021, Patrick was nominated for The White Review Prize in both poetry and short story categories. Patrick's debut novel Mrs S was published in 2023. In 2023, Patrick was named an Observer Best Debut of the Year and one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta magazine.
