AustLit

'If there's one photo that definitively sums up the a and entions of my youth, it's one my dad took of me in 2002 in the study of our family home. In this image, a wet-haired, twelve-year-old me is #ping, my tiny face fixed on the convex glass of an enormous white monitor. While my fingers tap at the keyboard, my chin is nestled in the chinrest of a violin, its scroll resting on the surface of the desk next to an undisturbed bow.'  (Publication abstract)

'A wheeze is the sound air makes when it hits the constricted trachea, the sound of meat meeting air. wheeze is a collection of poems about the ghostly possession of the body. It's desire as a force and not a lack. It's Pazuzu from The Exorcist. It's compulsive journalling. It's the reading someone else's body language as a gothic form of divination. It's the dark art of crushing, when the consuming thought of that distant other person enters you through the windpipe like a second body.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'With thematic forbears in Genet, Cooper and Wojnarowicz, Devotionals looks at multiple forms of desire through both subjective and objective lenses. Lines are crossed, or unseen - and utterances, instant messages, and human senses interact to procure a new experience. Devotionals is all at once subversive, sexy, beautiful and strange.

'Read it on your pillow, with the lights down low.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.