Blank / Jake Wild Hall

‘An antidote to toxic masculinity, conjuring a luxurious and enveloping language of hope.’ Melissa Lee-Houghton

‘Hall slows everything down to a faint heartbeat, forcing us to lean in closer, to properly hear the music of his being, and in turn the music of our own.’ Bobby Parker

You are grieving at the bar begins one of the poems in a book as intimate as it is incantational. With the immediacy of a camera lens, these poems bear out the internal conflict between the vulnerability of hope and the safety of detachment.

Language soars and contracts: reaching out in prayer—london is the world until it sings all the wrong hymns in your church—down into the body—the things i have been avoiding turn to ulcers in my mouth.

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FIRST PUBLISHED 25TH JULY 2019

(Paperback) 978-1-913268-00-8  (ePub) 978-1-918605-13-6