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Dry Bite
A poetic collection about grief, persistent pain, queer love, and the slow work of returning to yourself.
Dry Bite gathers a decade of poems that together trace a life interrupted and slowly remade. Beginning in the rhythms of domestic life, the collection follows the sudden loss of the poet’s father, the onset of a persistent, unexplained pain condition, and the gradual rediscovery of presence and creativity, all held by the constancy of unconditional love.
A meditation on grief, anxiety, and the invisible threads that run through generations, Dry Bite traces the reckoning that follows when the life you expected disappears. Honest and hopeful, these poems do not promise that everything will perfectly resolve. Instead, they offer companionship to anyone who has loved deeply, lost greatly, or found themselves slowly making peace with life as it is.
Dry Bite gathers a decade of poems that together trace a life interrupted and slowly remade. Beginning in the rhythms of domestic life, the collection follows the sudden loss of the poet’s father, the onset of a persistent, unexplained pain condition, and the gradual rediscovery of presence and creativity, all held by the constancy of unconditional love.
A meditation on grief, anxiety, and the invisible threads that run through generations, Dry Bite traces the reckoning that follows when the life you expected disappears. Honest and hopeful, these poems do not promise that everything will perfectly resolve. Instead, they offer companionship to anyone who has loved deeply, lost greatly, or found themselves slowly making peace with life as it is.
134 pages, Paperback
Published October 5, 2026
About the author
Chris Gill
4 books112 followersChris Gill is an Australian poet, novelist and co-founder of the independent publisher PRNTD. He is the author of four books: the poetry collections Verses and Dry Bite, and the novels The Nowhere and Boy Fallen. His novel The Nowhere was a Lambda Literary Awards finalist.
His writing explores grief, love, identity, and memory, often through the lens of queer experience, family, and the search for belonging.
His writing explores grief, love, identity, and memory, often through the lens of queer experience, family, and the search for belonging.
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October 18, 2026
Dry Bite by Chris Gill is a poetry collection that turns our everyday moments into lessons on life, love, and loss. Poems like Sundial stayed with me long after I put the book down and the brilliant “Don’t lose your softness, boy” - Gill writes with honesty and tenderness finding meaning in the quiet details of our lives.
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