The Human Body is a Hive E-Book

Erica Gillingham

• Herausgeber: Verve Poetry Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 19

Beschreibung

Composed in two halves, Erica Gillingham's The Human Body is a Hive is a playful and observant reconception of queer love and queer family-making. Opening with a shameless celebration of sex and desire, the collection expands the boundaries of love to include friendship, romance, and lifelong partnership. The latter catalogues the cyclical heartbreaks and wonders of fertility treatment through the microscopic lenses of nature, medicine, and art. Both quietly moving and profoundly celebratory, this exciting debut evokes tenderness and resilience.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erica Gillingham is a queer poet & writer living in London, England, via Siskiyou County, California. She is a bookseller at Gay’s The Word bookshop, Books Editor for DIVA, and Poetry Editor for The Signal House Edition. Her poems have been published by Cipher Press and Pilot Press as well as Impossible Archetype, Untitled: Writing and other journals, and she has essays in Queer Love, Queer Life (Muswell Press, November 2021) and So Hormonal (Monstrous Regiment, August 2020). Erica also has a PhD in lesbian love stories in young adult literature.

The Human Body is a Hive is her debut pamphlet.

www.ericagillingham.com

‘In this tender and arresting collection, the human body is a landscape and a hive; a cosmic object and a rhythm. Whether her feet are in metal stirrups on a hospital bed or pacing the hardwood of a gallery floor, Erica asks—intimately, unexpectedly, and one imagines with a wry smile—what it means to be both alive and in the body, and so also how we love.’

– Helen Jukes, author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

‘The Human Body is a Hive is a flush of warmth to the soul. Maintaining a balance between queer reproductive activism and an intimate late-night conversation with your oldest friend, Gillingham has woven the journey to motherhood with mythology, country music and exquisite nature writing. This debut collection is important reading to anyone who has hopes of being a parent today, whilst evoking a beautiful tale of love, creation and motherhood as old as time.’

– Jo Flynn, co-director of For Books’ Sake and author of Swallowing Sands

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© 2022 Erica Gillingham

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FIRST PUBLISHED MAR 2022

Printed and bound in the UK

ISBN: 978-1-913917-07-4

ePub ISBN: 978-1-913917-80-7

CONTENTS

I: Pheromones

Orange Peels, Tectonic Shifts

The Gallery Floor