Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects

In her collection of lyric essays, Fran Lock explores the historical and cultural links between animality and otherness, offering a fierce critique of racial capitalism and its stranglehold on language and meaning. Lock's writing is immersive, propulsive, and absolutely extra, reminding us that writing is a verb, not a noun.

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Publication date: 17 November 2023
Publisher: Out-Spoken Press

In this uncompromising collection of lyric essays, T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Fran Lock pulls us with her into the vortex of the 'feral.' From medieval bestiaries to Poundland, Edmund Spenser to X-Ray Spex, in Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects Lock explores and eviscerates historical and cultural links between animality and otherness in contexts ranging across class, gender, queerness, and Irishness. Overflowing with 'strange rigour and a rage that is 'tempering hope, Lock excavates the ways feral is at once both trap and means of liberation. 'Fran Lock is our savvy sc/avenging angel, undoing the curse of racial capitalisms stranglehold on language and meaning. Mattering out of place, Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects is endlessly errant, reminding us that writing is "a verb, not a noun," immersive, propulsive, and absolutely extra. Every line is so alive, so completely itself, it leaps from the page to flare bright & huge as graffiti on every wall until they fall.

ISBN-13: 9781739265281