celebrating the erotic and quotidian
in a beautifully illustrated gift edition
constitute a mosaic in which might be gleaned all the fury and fatuity of the pursuit of that gilded phantasmagoria of a just and beneficent state
a Persian painting of a bulbul
marginality and dispossession
Tormentil by Ian Humphreys ocean vuong celebrating the erotic and quotidianIan Humphreys follows his Portico prize longlisted debut Zebra with Tormentil, poems alive with the connections of family, food, community, place and, at its heart, prayers for fabulousness and transformative encounters with loss, fear and fearlessness. "A powerful, moving, original body of work. These are poems which will find readers, hit nerves, matter to people." Jean Sprackland on Zebra Nine Arches Press