Synopsis
Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is an exuberant collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology.
In Them! Giles excavates the lexicon of sex and gender, singing back with irony, fury and possibility. The visual poetics of Them! create an unusually dynamic reading experience as she finds new ways 'to...
Details
06 June 2024112 pages
9781035025213Imprint: Picador
Reviews
With wit and strange beauty . . . Giles celebrates an explosive efflorescence of forms, from prose poetry and erasures to dazzling visual poems, songs, photo-poems, a hilarious flow chart concerning gender reassignment protocol, and minimalist nature poems . . . A bold and inimitable tour de forcePhilip Terry, Guardian
Skilful and seditious poems . . . furious in [their] humanity and exceptional range of expressionPoetry Book Society
A complex collection – inventive, spiky and in possession of fiery energyVona Groarke, Irish Times
