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Holy Boys seeks to address the lingering echoes of adolescence and the pains of living a life in the shadows of unspeakable desires and all-consuming longing. These poems are a means of finding language in youth, gathering experience in pubescence, and serving as testament to survival in a world that demands silences throughout queer life. These poems are an archive which maps physical desire and emotional needs while pushing past dogma and self-hating. They are a means of naming the many lovers and loved ones who have helped move the speaker from boyhood into manhood. This is a collection that is informed by faith, sexuality, loss and love, a celebration of the growing pains that eventually allow us to unfurl into whole beings.

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'Written with a mastery of language and imagery, and displaying a sensuality which is palpable, Holy Boys is an exquisite and often heady collection of poetry from a writer who continues to explore and dig deep into what it means to be alive' -- Alistair Braidwood * The Skinny * 'Holy Boys is a formally innovative and beautifully meditative collection that is both dynamic and full of heart' -- Alycia Pirmohamed 'Spectral, melodic, quietly forceful like the sea . . . This is a tender and vivid collection' -- Nina Mingya Powles 'Holy Boys is an exquisite and exceptional collection, and I highly recommend you read it, treasure it and share it' -- Salena Godden 'Ordorica's poems look past mere survival and fold the whole of his story into a determined and optimistic present' -- Marjorie Lotfi

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Andres N. Ordorica (He/him) is a queer Latinx writer based in Edinburgh. Drawing on his family's immigrant history and third culture upbringing, his writing maps the journey of diaspora and unpacks what it means to be from ni de aqu, ni de all (neither here, nor there). He is the author of the poetry collection At Least This I Know and novel How We Named the Stars. He has been shortlisted for the Morley Lit Prize, the Mo Siewcharran Prize and the Saltire Society's Poetry Book of The Year. In 2024, he was selected as one of the Observer's 10 Best Debut Novelists.

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