Swollening by Jason Purcell Michele Hutchison to take time to celebrate

to take time to celebrate a birthday

from suffocating relationships and institutions

The Cloud of Unknowing and Wordsworth’s The Prelude

It is supplemented with an anthology of Fisher’s own comments on City and a secondary bibliography of criticism on his profound response to changes wrought upon England’s industrial cities in the middle of the 20th century

a fondness for the colour green is a self-aware

Swollening by Jason Purcell Michele Hutchison to take time to celebrateA 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