
This Fruiting Body
by Caleb Parkin
Title:
This Fruiting Body
Author:
Caleb Parkin
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
72 pages
Publisher:
Nine Arches Press
ISBN-13:
9781913437251
EAN:
9781913437251
Publication Date:
14/10/2021
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
266
Dimensions (mm):
198 x 288 x 13
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Caleb Parkin’s debut poetry collection, This Fruiting Body, plunges us into octopus raves and Sega Megadrive oceans, in the company of Saab hermit crabs and ASDA pride gnomes. It’s a playful invitation to a queer ecopoetics that permeates our bodies and speech, our gardens, homes, and city suburbs. It reintroduces us to a Nature we’ve dragged up until it’s unrecognisable.Parkin’s perceptive poetry sparks with neon visuals, engaged in the joyful, urgent, imagining of alternative realities and new futures. How might we relate queerly and dearly to our environment and its shared conundrums? These adventurous poems delight in human and nonhuman intimacies, teem with life, ponder bug sex and put masculinities under the microscope. This Fruiting Body roves our grandiloquent planet, embracing our kinships with matter, culture, creatures and drag-mother Earth herself.











