Rocksong by Golnoosh Nour Robin Thomas ricochet off unavoidable events and

ricochet off unavoidable events and come to speak unbearable revelations

internationally recognised as one of Britain’s leading contemporary poets

As antagonisms and intimacies converge

Shortlisted for the Poetry Prize for First Collection from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry

the Tardis jumps a middle-aged man back to his Cheshire childhood

Rocksong by Golnoosh Nour Robin Thomas ricochet off unavoidable events andROCKSONG is a shamelessly baroque ride through the nadirs and summits of the contemporary queer. Its a decadent book, where decadence isnt a cipher for self indulgence, but a fierce and fugitive resistance. As Audre Lorde writes We survived and survival breeds desire for more self. Or, in the glowing neon precincts of Rocksong, more selves, plural. These poems flirt and confront in turns, they seduce and attack, they are tender and grotesque. They