Description
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 diverge in the imagination.
Giles visual poetics create an unusually dynamic reading experience as she finds new ways to sing, shout and strike in the cracks of whats possible. At a time when trans rights are to the fore in public discourse, Them! is a zestful poetic intervention from one of this generations most necessary poets.
Author Information
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney. She holds an MA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021 and received the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year. Her poetry collections Tonguit (Freight Books, 2015) and The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018) were shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award (twice), the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year.
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