Three Births

K Patrick's debut collection of poems, Three Births, explores the joy and fluidity of queer love, interrogating the erotic and romantic through a prism of beings, lovers, states, objects, landscapes, and systems. Using subversive poetic manoeuvres, Patrick documents the absurdity of obsessive desires, allowing room for flux and flow in the body, relationships, ecology, and place. The book culminates in the message that we should be able to inhabit the body we want and love freely.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2024
Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd

K Patrick's debut collection of poems, Three Births, is an extraordinary and playful exploration of queer love. Through a series of notes and poetic maneuvers, Patrick delves into the complexities of the erotic and romantic, questioning the boundaries between beings, lovers, states, objects, landscapes, and systems. With a subversive and distinct style, he navigates through themes of marriage, divorce, nature writing, and 20th-century literary figures with agility, delicacy, candor, and humor.

Three Births documents the absurdity of obsessive desires and offers a space for states of flux and flow in the body, relationships, ecology, and place. Patrick's easy-going, cool, and ironic tone creates a high-wire linguistic utopia that zaps with syntactic-synaptic wildness. The collection culminates in a subtle but powerful message: we should be able to inhabit the body we want to inhabit and love freely within it.

K Patrick's debut collection is a testament to the joy and fluidity of queer love, challenging traditional notions of sexuality and gender. It is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary poetry and the exploration of identity and experience.

Weight: 112g
Dimension: 130 x 197 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781915051097