At the Altar of Touch
Author: Yuan Gao, Gavin
ISBN: 9780702263347
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 112
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity.
These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one another of love and loss. This is a scintillating and exhilarating collection from an accomplished and distinctive new voice.
ISBN: 9780702263347
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 112
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 10mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity.
These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one another of love and loss. This is a scintillating and exhilarating collection from an accomplished and distinctive new voice.
