About this book
In
Milk Snake, Toby Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees.
bleary
from sleep and warm
water and no glasses
i spot an uncertain comma
sliding
he drags
his tail up my
shower wall cumbersome
and not unmaggotesque and i
can see
his guts
or maybe it's
his dinner
- from 'companion'
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Our News
- Inver
- Bufo
- Waders
- Men Gathering Honey
- Cold Today
- Nostos
- Companion
- Entryway
- Pip
- Arils
- Meliteus
- Shaping Staff
- Getting to Know You
- Fog in the Emerald Necklace, Boston
- Visits
- Old Bones
- Tree Forms as a Mother and Child
- Oh, It’s You
- Mischief
- The Curator
- Pickling
- Sands
- Portstewart, 25 March 2018
- Acknowledgements
- About the Poet
- About the Emma Press
