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In Milk Snake, Toby Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees.

bleary
from sleep and warm
water and no glasses
i spot an uncertain comma
sliding

he drags his tail up my
shower wall cumbersome
and not unmaggotesque and i
can see

his guts
or maybe it’s
his dinner
- from 'companion'

Milk Snake

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    A Paperback / softback by Toby Buckley

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      Publisher: The Emma Press
      Publication Date: 21/07/2022
      ISBN13: 9781912915989, 978-1912915989
      ISBN10: 1912915987
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In Milk Snake, Toby Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees.

      bleary
      from sleep and warm
      water and no glasses
      i spot an uncertain comma
      sliding

      he drags his tail up my
      shower wall cumbersome
      and not unmaggotesque and i
      can see

      his guts
      or maybe it’s
      his dinner
      - from 'companion'

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