Boy Thing by John W. Clarke Joelle Taylor Each careful word in these

Each careful word in these layered

and what can be made to appear

The first English-language collection from one of India’s most hard-hitting writers

This is the debut collection from Edwin Morgan Poetry Award winner Alycia Pirmohamed

Bolivia and El Salvador

Boy Thing by John W. Clarke Joelle Taylor Each careful word in these"Boy Thing is a thing of wonder. These are poems that negotiate anew the tender, hurt territory of a boy abruptly unfathered with every fresh reading; and that travel into the wonderment of becoming a father of boys. We are given a boy's eye view of 1970s Cornwall with a music and detail so meticulous that we yearn with Clarke for its lost territories. But these are not just poems of archive or archaeology; they are revelatory, dynamic and raw. Clarke