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This substantial second selection of Roz Kaveney's poems covers everything from her reflections on a life very fully lived; on trans and queer experiences and politics; translations and explorations of figures from history and mythology - Inanna, Medea, Homer and more - and how they speak to us now; commentary on pressing topical issues such as the murders of Sarah Everard and Brionna Ghey, reflections on what 'a good death' might be; thoughts on art, artists and making art; poignant encomia to dead friends and artists of note, through to reflections on what 'a good death' might be. Classical in form, these poems are accessible, erudite, moving and thought-provoking by turn. Among many other works, Roz is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning cult novel of trans street life, Tiny Pieces of Skull, also available from Team Angelica Publishing, and the Lambda-nominated Dialectic of the Flesh (Midsummer Night's Press).

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'Roz Kaveney's passionate playful verse looks to the past in its formal elegance and its nostalgia for things and people lost, yet is contemporary in its engagement with a radical politics of sex and gender.' Richard Howard 'I love Roz Kaveney's work. Her dazzling poems marry formal mastery with profound insight into many of the central concerns and crises of our existences. Her subject matter ranges from the classical to the contemporary and she has the knack of vividly inviting us into the historical moment. She writes poems that offer up morals but never strike one as moralizing and her principled poetics are frequently leavened with moments of transporting loveliness. It's this tension between tenderness and technique that makes Kaveney such a wonderful and necessary poet.' Sally Connolly (Ranches of Isolation and Grief and Meter) 'Startling, tender, elegiac, fierce... very, very good.' Joanne Harris

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