Swollening by Jason Purcell Mike Watts Arcimboldo's famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits

Arcimboldo's famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits

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her first collection of poetry The Third was shortlisted for the Melita Hume prize

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Swollening by Jason Purcell Mike Watts Arcimboldo's famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraitsA tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope. Jason Purcell's debut collection of poems rests at the intersection of queerness and illness, staking a place for the queer body that has been made sick through living in this world. Part poetic experiment and part memoir, Swollening attempts to diagnose what has been undiagnosable, tracing an uneven path from a