warm blooded things

by Shaun Hill

Shaun Hill’s debut poetry collection, warm blooded things, is a radical and intimate encounter with boyhood, sexuality, and violence, love, desire and solitude. Wandering the nocturnal city streets, through random encounters, co-opting space and capturing conversations in a multitude of voices, this collection evokes alienation whilst longing for tenderness.

Hill’s agile poems are alive to fear, loss, danger – and to the possibility of other ways of being, other, better stories that we can write. The poems also explore a uniquely queer archive of time and place, the legacy of AIDS, and draw strength from giving voice to unheard histories. Seeking sanctuary and alternatives to a capitalist reality, these precise, humane poems gesture towards hope, survival and the necessity to be responsible for one another.

62 pages, Paperback

First published December 2, 2021

Reviews

[Thethiccboyinstripedyeezys · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good, could have been a little more focused, but what's written is amazing.

[the vampire damien · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐