In Her Jaws by Rosamund Taylor

In Her Jaws by Rosamund TaylorIn her debut collection, Rosamund Taylor dares us across thresholds and invites us to glimpse the world as we've never seen it before. She boldly charts a journey of survival and transformation with poems on history reimagined, astronomy, sorcery, wild landscapes, talismanic creatures, and queer love. Taylor explores what it means to live in a female body that is not defined by lack, or want, or perpetual suffering, but is possessed by a real and

a sublime Chekhovian shock

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Every word is the right word in the right place

a student shares her work with a class only to be critiqued about her own lived experience

and our place in the world

His older brother was the prime suspect and left Echo Ridge in disgrace

100 Queer Poems moves from childhood and adolescence to forging new homes and relationships with our chosen families

the day after'

Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece

but for years they had called him Panenka

From ancient game-changers like the Epic of Gilgamesh

but their homes were not appropriate for little kitten