Swollening by Jason Purcell Michele Hutchison James reminds us that he

James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric accomplishment: he is also an immensely wise one

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she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets

It is supplemented with an anthology of Fisher’s own comments on City and a secondary bibliography of criticism on his profound response to changes wrought upon England’s industrial cities in the middle of the 20th century

Swollening by Jason Purcell Michele Hutchison James reminds us that heA tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope. Jason Purcell's debut collection of poems rests at the intersection of queerness and illness, staking a place for the queer body that has been made sick through living in this world. Part poetic experiment and part memoir, Swollening attempts to diagnose what has been undiagnosable, tracing an uneven path from a