Milk Snake

by Toby Buckley

Milk Snake is the debut pamphlet from Donegal poet Toby Buckley, who is based in Belfast. In Milk Snake , Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees.
These lightly-done poems about wildlife and the sea, laced with an underlying sense of queasiness, herald a new Irish LGBTQIA+ voice, who will be of interest to readers who enjoyed Queering the Green (ed. Paul Maddern), published by The Lifeboat in 2021.

Genres: Poetry, LGBT

36 pages, Paperback

Published July 21, 2022

Reviews

[Elinor · Rating 4 out of 5]

some very gorgeous poetry. felt very tactile and every day, accessible but not simple. love that vibe. and the themes are easy to connect with for everyone.

my favourites: Inver, Waders, Cold Today, Pip, Shaping Staff, Pickling, and Port Stewart, 25 March 2018

[°☆•Kirsty•☆° · Rating 3 out of 5]

✨️3.5✨️
There were some really good gems in here! My favourite poems in this collection were Pip, Shaping Staff and Arils. I would have loved if the poems were longer, and then I could have soaked them in more. Otherwise, a good read.

[Katie Kilgannon]

Not for me and that’s ok :)