Holy Boys

by Andrés N. Ordorica

The new poetry collection from Andrés N. Ordorica (picked as an Observer Best Debut Novelists for 2024), Holy Boys seeks to address the echoes of adolescence and the pains of living a life in the shadows of unspeakable desires and all-consuming longing. This collection is for readers who appreciate language and the multilingual power of poetry.

These poems are an archive which maps physical desire and emotional needs while pushing past dogma and self-hating. They are a means of naming the many lovers and loved ones who have helped move the speaker from boyhood into manhood.

Genres: Poetry

112 pages, Paperback

Published April 3, 2025

About the author

Andrés N. Ordorica is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. His writing seeks to illuminate love and loss while unpacking what it means to be from ni de aquí, ni de allá. He is the author of the poetry collection At Least This I Know and Holy Boys and the novel How We Named the Stars. He has been shortlisted for the Kavya Prize, Morley Lit Prize, Mo Siewcharran Prize and Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of The Year. In 2024, he was selected as one of The Observer’s 10 Best Debut Novelists. The following year he was named by The Skinny as one of 12 of Scotland’s Next Generation of Writers.

Reviews

[Lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

absolutely gorgeous

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favourites:
Harr Rising
A Pile of Green Peas
My Husband The Atheist
We Do Not Change
Long Distance
Here There Everywhere
Norway (Our Way)
Seven Feathers
Do You Struggle With Homosexuality?
I Used To Keep a List
My Lover’s Hands
What I Know Of Body
Dolens Annus
Fourth of July
Memory Map v.
Pelo Negro
La Reza Del Viento
I Have Been Dreamjng
Crescendo

[Andrés Ordorica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poetry? Check! Gay Poetry? Check!! Butterflies? A kaleidoscope of them!!! CHECK CHECK CHECK it out.