Them!
06 June 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Read by the author, Harry Josephine Giles.
Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology.
Witty, candid, furious, and always compelling, Them! negotiates the fraught and fruitful space between the worlds of ‘online’ and the ‘outside’, and how they fuse and...
Details
06 June 2024132 minutes
Harry Josephine Giles
9781035025237Imprint: 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
