Rocksong

Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2022

A new poetry collection from the author of The Ministry of Guidance.

‘Rocksong is a shamelessly baroque ride through the nadirs and summits of the contemporary queer. It’s a decadent book, where decadence isn’t a cipher for self-indulgence, but a fierce and fugitive resistance. As Audre Lorde writes "We survived and survival breeds desire for more self". Or, in the glowing neon precincts of Rocksong, more selves, plural. These poems flirt and confront in turns, they seduce and attack, they are tender and grotesque. They create a strangely exultant burlesque on identity, sexuality, desire and language. I love them for that.’ - Fran Lock