Sean Burn's third full-length poetry collection ranges across art and sculpture, a Tuvan singer, man's impact on the Lake District, the disgrace of water privatisation, dance, America and Europe, and finishes with the title poem which is an intense transgender love story.

1981 & a hard right government make savage cuts as party members wear hang nelson mandela badges. poverty, racist attacks, hunger strikes, terrorism & a royal wedding ... & playground chants ov spaz change to joey because joey deacon who lived with cerebral palsy appears on blue peter. friend who played stiff little fingers loud, wore dm's with red laces & fought to learn cookery saw the future coming, knew they were going to get called joey so got in first by declaring their name wz joey from now on, a still breath-taking reclamation. ultimately joey is a high octane monologue about...