Limbic

Peter Scalpello

ISBN 10: 1838390049 / ISBN 13: 9781838390044

Editore: Cipher Press Mär 2022, 2022

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Neuware - Peter Scalpello's glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery, this vital debut collection explores chemsex, addiction, masculinity, and joy.

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• Titolo: Limbic
• Editore: Cipher Press Mär 2022
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1838390049
• ISBN 13: 9781838390044
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

Limbic is Peter Scalpello's glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery. Taking us on slippery nights out fuelled by chemsex, on drunken lads' holidays, and into the quiet violence of small domestic moments, this is a world where tracksuits hide queer desire, where shame masks vulnerability, where wallets hide wraps of crystal meth. From the eager trepidation of teenage sex, to the ecstasy of parties, to the stigma around HIV, Limbic is at once a therapy and a celebration, showing how queer learning can be both soft-edged and brutal at once. An exploration of masculinity, addiction and trauma, this is a revelatory collection of poems; wise, tender, and vital.

Informazioni sull?autore

Peter Scalpello is a queer poet and sexual health therapist from Glasgow. Their poems have been published in Penguin's literary magazine Five Dials, Parspar Press’s Scintillas: New Maltese Writing, Pilot Press's A Queer Anthology of Healing and A Queer Anthology of Wilderness, Gutter Magazine, Impossible Archetype, Anthropocene, Fruit Journal, The Selkie, and Queerlings, among others. In 2021 they were nominated for a Forward Prize and Pushcart Prize. In 2020, they were shortlisted for the Creative Future Writers' Award, and longlisted for the Desperate Literature Prize, and the University of East Anglia 'Show Me Yours Prize'. They have performed their poems at events alongside Danez Smith and Andrew McMillan, and have read at Fringe: Queer Film & Arts Festival 2020, Granta's Feminist Erotica readings, Homotopia Festival 2020, and University of Glasgow's Stay at Home Fringe 2020. Their pamphlets Acting Out and chem & other poems were published by Broken Sleep Books in 2021. Limbic is their first collection.