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I hate parties : poems / Jes Battis.

Battis, Jes, 1979- (Author). 2SLGBTQQIA+ Resources (Added Author).

Summary:

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 crashes) through wild feelings and minor catastrophes.

Record details

ISBN: 9780889714809 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 101 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Gibsons, BC : Nightwood Editions, 2024.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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.