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I hate parties /

Fifty poems to dance (awkwardly) between queer and anxious spaces. Social anxiety runs through I Hate Parties like a current. Recorded on deliberately shaky media, this collection offers the B-side of growing up queer, autistic and nonbinary. From Scruff dates to mix tapes, Jes Battis cruises (and c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Battis, Jes, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gibsons, British Columbia : Nightwood Editions, [2024].
Subjects:
Canadian poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Winters
  • Triple axel
  • Sleepover
  • Four-way stop
  • Bear of my youth
  • Little earthquakes
  • Small-town gays
  • I hate parties
  • The most immersive experience
  • Hockey town
  • 2. Calamities
  • Dubbed
  • The odd
  • All asps forgiven
  • South Granville
  • Tenderfoot
  • Winter skips
  • The tribble
  • Draft poems
  • It's funny
  • 3. Episodes
  • Speech delay
  • Spidey sense
  • Tism
  • Woof
  • Pronoun policy
  • Marlena is once again possessed
  • Leaving the Shire
  • The repair shop
  • 4. Transits
  • Glass crack time machine
  • Undo list
  • Checkup
  • Mouthful
  • How to stay gay in quarantine
  • Tremors
  • Hairball
  • My boyfriend names every Bond movie chronologically.