The Human Body Is A Hive Book
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RELEASE DATE - 10 MARCH 2022
Erica Gillingham’s The Human Body is a Hive is a playful & observant reconception of queer love & queer family-making composed in two halves.
Opening with a shameless celebration of sex & desire, the collection expands the boundaries of love to include friendship, romance, & lifelong partnership.
The latter catalogues the cyclical heartbreaks & wonders of fertility treatment through the microscopic lenses of nature, medicine, & art. Quietly moving & profoundly celebratory, this exciting debut evokes vulnerability & resilience.
"A joyful and sensuous addition to the lesbian literary canon. Beautiful."
Joelle Taylor, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for C+nto & Othered Poems
"Amidst the joys and complexities of queer family-making, Gillingham offers us tender, sensual and profound poems suffused with a tensile strength."
Mary Jean Chan, winner of the Costa Poetry Award for Fléche
"In this arresting poetry pamphlet, 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. [...] This debut pamphlet 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, director of For Books’ Sake and author of Swallowing Sands
About Erica
Erica Gillingham is a queer poet and writer living in London, England, via Siskiyou County, California. She is a bookseller at Gay’s The Word, Books Editor at DIVA magazine, and Poetry Editor at The Signal House Edition. Her poetry and essays have been published by Cipher Press, Muswell Press, Monstrous Regiment, Pilot Press, Fourteen Poems, Untitled, Impossible Archetype and clavmag.
The Human Body is a Hive is her debut pamphlet. @ericareadsqueer / www.ericagillingham.com
| Author | Erica Gillingham |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages |
32 |
| ISBN |
9781913917074 |
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