This is a punching pamphlet fully matching the high expectations I have for anything Verve Poetry Press publish.
I tagged two poems…
Girl Guides, which is a tender account of finding that first love or crush and all the mixed up joy and pain that goes along with that.
Meanwhile 2004 is darker, and as the ‘policing’ of libraries and restrictions on access to LGBT+ stories returns it is necessary to call the toxicity of it out – in the poem after the encounter with the Librarian we have the chilling ending ‘… even Childline didn’t comfort me | much as I realised the counsellor could be someone like her.’
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