Boy in Various Poses by Lewis Buxton Jeffrey Wainwright the cervix

the cervix

This is the work of two remarkable poets in collaboration and conversation

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from ante-natal complications and the devastating pain of miscarriage to the overwhelming joy of healthy delivery and healthy infancy

a man suffering a heart attack on the ferry between New Zealand's north and south islands: practicalities and actions demanded of the moment are deftly depicted but the human place in our unfinished history is there between the sea beneath and the enveloping sky above

Boy in Various Poses by Lewis Buxton Jeffrey Wainwright the cervixBoy in Various Poses, a debut collection of poems from Lewis Buxton, explores all the different types of boy you can be tender, awful, thoughtful, vulnerable. Here, a maelstrom of mental health, male bodies, and sexuality is laid bare with wit and curiosity, and the complexity and multiplicity of gender itself is revealed. The boy in question is often shapeshifting, slippery, unreliable, close yet never quite in focus, moving too fast to pause and