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in a love story that is moving

his mix of wonder and wise caution

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

Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014

Swollening by Jason Purcell Mike Watts or edit the language forA 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