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Reckless Paper Birds
About this book
Winner of the 2020 Hawthornden prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Costa Poetry Award
Surreal, joyful, political and queer, Reckless Paper Birds is a collection to treasure by Polari Prize-winning poet John McCullough.
These exuberant poems welcome you into a psychedelic, parallel world of 'vomit and blossom' where Kate Bush mingles with a weeping Lady Gaga, a 'fractal coast' full of see-through things: water, mirrors, glass pebbles.
With a magpie's eye for hidden charms, McCullough ranges across birdlife, Grindr and My Little Pony while also addressing social issues from homelessness to homophobia.
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Nuthatch
| Yes, this really is me, lumbering | | |
| | | past a kidney-shaped swimming pool |
| in joggers and a twenty-year-old body | | |
| | | a leaky skin suit I’d return to the shop |
| if I could, swap for something | | |
| | | more cyborg, chrome-plated. |
| It gathers sweat in unseasonal heat. | | |
| | | The back of my neck reveals |
| its blood, observed by a man in dark | | |
| | | glasses two decades older |
| who lives in the sky like a blizzard | | |
| | | reversed, an upward vortex of white |
| powder and home gyms, who onl... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- The Zigzag Path
- Flock of Paper Birds
- Tender Vessels
- Stationery
- Nuthatch
- Jay
- Tumbleweed
- Queer-Cole
- Flamingo
- Aether
- Notes for a Cheery Post-Apocalyptic Short
- Flavour
- Nervous Systems
- Michael
- Pterodactyl
- Stones
- Spout
- The Sandman
- Please Don’t Touch Me, My Head Falls Off
- Sungazer
- Strange Stories and Outlandish Facts
- The Orange Trees of Now
- What Chaos Angels Eat for Breakfast
- Soulcraft
- The Weeping Gaga Speaks
- Are the Circles Clearer on the Red or the Green?
- A Floating Head
- Pelican
- Silkworm
- Tonight, the Hours Arrive Like Animals
- Cartoons for Adults
- Accidents
- Bugsong
- Your Kindness Has Snapped Me Like an Old Deckchair
- Mumpsimus
- A Walk with Our Imaginary Son
- The Skeleton Flower