![]() ![]() The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan ( Carcanet, £12.99)Ī moving, lyrically potent collection charting the interconnected impacts of political and personal fracture. I wish I’d spent all these years in / your arms and close to you / and had you shave my head and slap my back and take me under / your soft wing … ” At a moment where transphobia seems virulent in UK culture, these lyrical odes to kinship, intimacy and hard-won self-love feel particularly affecting and important. I’m so sorry I was not in your love sooner. My beautiful trans people, / natural as life. But at the heart of the book are tender, striking celebrations of queer and trans identity and community, such as the poem Love song for queens, studs, butches, daddies, fags and all the other angels. The topics are just as diverse, including romance, the body as boundary and the environment. ![]() This collection covers a huge variety of forms, from punchy rhyming poetry that nods to Tempest’s prowess as a performer to playful works that experiment with white space on the page. ![]() Divisible By Itself and One by Kae Tempest ( Picador, £10.99) ![]()
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