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This Fruiting Body
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Young Animal
- If the Earth is My Mother
- garden
- Dear Horticultural Mother-in-law,
- The Radio Talks About GDP
- How to Preserve a Fatberg
- All the chipshops I have ever been to
- i swallow
- Voice Over: the Carrier Bag
- By the Writing Shed at Laugharne
- The Zone
- Ecco the Dolphin
- Great-Great-Grandspider, 2120
- Terms of Service: Your Fruiting Body
- Ode on a Black Plastic Compost Bin
- Tomb Sweeping Day
- Winged Insects at Literary Events
- Exit Only
- Hopper Swiss Collects Waterfalls
- from The Mar-a-Lago Resort Website
- The Channel
- Chromatophores
- Minotaur at the Soft Play Centre
- I Compare Myself to a GIF of a Dung Beetle
- Campers
- Watership Down Fugue
- The Painted Gate
- Eight Kinds of Love
- Doghouse
- For I Will Consider Gnorma, the Asda Pride Gnome
- Doctored-ness
- Spiral Shell
- Unknown Distance, Moderate Difficulty
- Hermit Crab
- At the Outdoors Store
- The Ballad of the Morris Omies
- Witchesâ Knickers
- Shrinking Violets
- Tree Triptych
- Stubble
- Kind Words About Darkness
- Instead of Smoking After Sex
- Somewhere to Keep the Rain
- After the Section 14
- Oberon Avenue
- Please Do Not Touch the Walrus or Sit on the Iceberg
- Acknowledgements and Notes
- Thanks
- About the author and this book