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I love James McDermott’s work – powerful and playful, it really gives voice to so much queer experience, there is also a rich engagement with the natural world, he is not the only queer poet that sites experience in the natural or rural a counterpoint to the narratives of us having to flea to the cities, and that we can only become our true Queer selves in urban life.
A measure of how much I liked this collection is the fact I put tags in the following:
Closet
Seed
Protect the Beautiful Landscapes
How To Care For Your Pansies
We’re Animals
Shaggy
Queer Time
Grind
Mutual
Nuts and Bolts (particularly for the final lines “...I slide back in to sleep and think how wrong | are those blokes who say men’s bodies don’t fit.”
Iguana Pink - from the Tickled Pink sequence
Outsiders
And I was rationing myself otherwise there would probably have been tags in every poem!
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