Limbic

By: Peter Scalpello

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Paperback | 24 February 2022

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84 Pages

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19.8 x 12.9 x 1.4

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'Limbic' is Peter Scalpello's glittering ode to sex, intimacy, and queer discovery. Taking us on slippery nights out fuelled by chemsex, on drunken lads' holidays, and into the quiet violence of small domestic moments, this is a world where tracksuits hide queer desire, where shame masks vulnerability, where wallets hide wraps of crystal meth. An exploration of masculinity, addiction and trauma, this is a revelatory collection of poems; wise, tender, and vital. From the eager trepidation of teenage sex, to the ecstasy of parties, to the stigma around HIV, 'Limbic' is at once a therapy and a celebration, showing how queer learning can be both soft-edged and brutal at once.

Industry Reviews

"Limbic is a stunning first collection from a breathtaking poet. Visceral, elegant and uncompromising; an important addition to the queer canon. Buy it a drink and let it talk to you late into the night." - Joelle Taylor;"A moving collection which, through different forms, different narratives , and different encounters, speaks eloquently and dynamically to the multiplicities our own bodies contain." - Andrew McMillan; "At once playful and devastating, raw and complex. These poems tear open the relationship between masculinity and sex, queerness, compulsions, addictions... It would be difficult not to be moved by this collection!" - Keith Jarrett; "All the superlatives for Peter Scalpello's tender poems. I can't stop thinking about them." - Niven Govinden; "Peter Scalpello's Limbic is an extraordinary book. At times riotous and celebratory as he explores queer desire in a complex and nuanced way; at other times introspective and even erased as Scalpello examines the impact of substance use on the self and on sexuality; and at other times bristling with poetic rage and protest! 'Wounds need air' he writes, finding a language, both noisy and translucent, to transform these wounds into poems - poems which ultimately transform and transcend themselves, as the poet even becomes his 'own daddy'!" - Richard Scott

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